Agreed! With so much real life problems waiting to be tackled, the last thing I'd want is to go read someone who increases the depression manifold. A pessimist is not only a sad sight but a bad read too.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
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Agreed! With so much real life problems waiting to be tackled, the last thing I'd want is to go read someone who increases the depression manifold. A pessimist is not only a sad sight but a bad read too.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
This is the kind of Friend You are-
Without making me realize
My soul’s anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off
All my suffering and sordid past
In Your beautiful hands.
~ Hafiz
Nice little poem. I'm glad you find meaning in it.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ~ Albert Camus
One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. ~ Hafiz of Persia
Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. ~ Hafiz of Persia
A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore. ~ Hafiz of Persia
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ~ John Steinbeck
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ~ John Steinbeck
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Art is the community’s medicine for the worst disease of the mind, corruption of consciousness.” R.G. Collingwood
"seeking to be more than man, we become less"
God is a cleaning company with a detergent made of silence. ~ C A Cafolini
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Originally Posted by cafolini
Do you know Hafiz is also referred to as Hafiz Shirazi? He was from Shiraz, Iran which is also the birthplace of Sa'di.
And that's a beautiful quote of Camus.
True! However, there are some people who hold art responsible for the corruption of consciousness. Deplorable and sad!Quote:
Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment. ~ Tagore
Every cause produces more than one effect. ~ Herbert Spencer
Every effect is a cause. ~ C A Cafolini
“I don't believe in God, but I miss him."
Julian Barnes
If you shut the door to all errors, truths will be shut out. ~ Rabindranath Tagore