The only way to avoid being miserable

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The minute I heard my first love story

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Rain is grace

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

There are lots of people who mistake

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory

Keep close to Nature's heart

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

................یہ اختیار اسے دے دیا گیا تھا کہ وہ

!!................یہ اختیار اسے دے دیا گیا تھا کہ وہ

💞!!...ہنسا بھی سکتا ہے مجھ کو رلا بھی سکتا ہے

مجھے دلوں سےمحبت کے اٹھ جانے کا خوف اتا ہے

مجھے دلوں سےمحبت کے اٹھ جانے کا خوف اتا ہے

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کیونکہ جب کسی کے دل سے ہمارے لیے محبت ختم ہوتی ہے 

تو وہ اجنبی ہونے کے ساتھ ساتھ بے حس بھی ہوجاتا ہے۔

I cannot live with You by Emily Dickinson

I cannot live with You by Emily Dickinson

I cannot live with You – 

It would be Life – 

And Life is over there – 

Behind the Shelf

The Sexton keeps the Key to – 

Putting up

Our Life – His Porcelain – 

Like a Cup – 

Discarded of the Housewife – 

Quaint – or Broke – 

A newer Sevres pleases – 

Old Ones crack – 

I could not die – with You – 

For One must wait

To shut the Other’s Gaze down – 

You – could not – 

And I – could I stand by

And see You – freeze – 

Without my Right of Frost – 

Death’s privilege?

Nor could I rise – with You – 

Because Your Face

Would put out Jesus’ – 

That New Grace

Glow plain – and foreign

On my homesick Eye – 

Except that You than He

Shone closer by – 

They’d judge Us – How – 

For You – served Heaven – You know,

Or sought to – 

I could not – 

Because You saturated Sight – 

And I had no more Eyes

For sordid excellence

As Paradise

And were You lost, I would be – 

Though My Name

Rang loudest

On the Heavenly fame – 

And were You – saved – 

And I – condemned to be

Where You were not – 

That self – were Hell to Me – 

So We must meet apart – 

You there – I – here – 

With just the Door ajar

That Oceans are – and Prayer – 

And that White Sustenance – 

Despair –

The Cock and the Pearl

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.

"Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw.

What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard?

"You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."

Moral of Aesop's Fable:

"Precious things are for those that

can prize them"

My mission in life

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.