The story of life...

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons...
[Friedrich Nietzsche]



Life takes experience for sure, takes happiness and pain at the same time...
I mean it is very unlikely to expect only having happiness in life without any pain...
Dreaming the great achievements, one can not neglect the pains that will be in the way... The greater the happiness, the harsher the pain...

If we define the happiness as overcoming to the challenges we deal with in our daily lives, so the bigger the challenge is...overcoming to that is supposed to bring the greater happiness. This would be achieved through a very tough battle which indeed will be along with greater pains...

Remembering this beautiful piece by late Fereydoun Moshiri:

In front of my eyes, it is the sea...as far as my eyes can catch...
The beacon of the peace shines in the other side of the sea...along the horizon...

On this side of the sea, how lonely my soul is and how big my sadness... how miserably my body has been chained to all the darkness of the past...

The waves are calling upon me... "Freed, whoever courageous who passed the sea"...

Oh...But I am not courageous enough to walk in this sea...
Oh...But I am not courageous enough to break the chains out of my soul...

The waves are calling upon me... "Freed, whoever courageous who passed the sea"...


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[Free translation by H. Ataei of "A light in the horizon" by late Fereydoun Moshiri, Great Iranian contemporary poet (1926 - 2000)]

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence...

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved...


Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see...


Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged...


Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood...


Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence...


When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us...


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[Quotes of Helen Keller, Great American Author and Thinker (1880 - 1968)]
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Everytime you smile at someone...

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies...


If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other...


If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one...


Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person...


If you judge people, you have no time to love them...


It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start...


Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing...


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[Quotes by Mother Teresa, courtesy of www.brainyquote.com]

It is raining again...

How close I feel myself to the green of the grass...

Sometimes, we need to leave the umbrellas at home...
And go to the streets to simply feel it...to touch the rain...

Sometimes, we need to take all the memories with us...
And celebrate the beauty of the nature when it is raining...

Sometimes, we need to go for a walk with the ones we love...
Sometimes, we may look for being friends with all the people when it is raining...

Oh, how close I feel myself to the green of the nature...



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[Free translation of late Sohrab Sepehri's poems, Iranian contemporary poet and artist]