Better Cities:About Happiness and Love

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About Happiness and Love

A series of poems about achieving happiness

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1.
To be beautiful does not mean they are born so,
After all, we can learn beauty.
When a man is beautiful in soul -
What looks can be compared with it?

2.
The lower a person is in soul, the more arrogant.
He stretches his ego where his soul has not grown.

3.
Whoever is beaten by life will achieve more.
He who eats a pound of salt, appreciates honey above..
He who shed tears laughs sincerely.
He who dies, knows that he lived!

4.
Two people looked through one window. One saw rain and mud.
The other saw green foliage, spring and blue sky.
Two people looked through one window.

5.
We are a source of fun - and a sorrow mine.
We are a repository of filth - and a pure spring.
A person, as if in a mirror world, has many faces.
He is insignificant - and he is immensely great!

6.
How often, making mistakes in life, we lose those whom we value.
Trying to please strangers, sometimes we run away from our neighbour.
We exalt those who are not worthy of us, but we betray the most faithful.
Who loves us so much, we offend, and we ourselves are waiting for an apology.

7.
We will never be in this world forever,
we will never meet with friends at the table.
Catch every flying moment -
time will not wait for you.

8.
Do not envy the one who is strong and rich,
sunset always follows dawn.
With this short life, equal to a breath,
Treat as though on borrowed time.

9.
I think it's better to be alone,
Than to give the heat of the soul to "someone".
Giving an invaluable gift to anyone,
Having met a loved one, you will not be able to love again.

10.
Giving yourself doesn't mean selling.
And sleeping next to them does not mean sleeping.
Not to take revenge does not mean to forgive everything.
Not being close does not mean not loving.

11.
A grain of hope will remain in the meadow
Your garden will remain in debt to you
Spend everything - from barley to gold coins -
With friends, otherwise the enemy will get it
12.
To live life wisely, you need to know a lot,
Remember two important rules to start with:
You'd rather starve than eat anything,
And it is better to be alone than with just anyone.

13.
Sage, do not blab out in a drunken argument,
Or the secret of the heart of gossip will soon become.
Remember: a pearl shimmering in a shell,
Was a drop of mystery hidden in the heart of the sea.

14.
The mountain, sipping wine, then would go to dance.
A fool who has only slander in store for wine.
You say that we should shun wine?
Nonsense! It is the wondrous spirit that animates us.
15.
Oh, if only, taking comfort with you
Yes, with a jug of wine and putting bread in his pocket,
I will spend a day with you among the ruins, -
Any sultan could envy me.

16.
I had a dream: one wise man said to me: "While
You are sleeping, the petals of a purple flower grow decrepit.
Shake off the slumber of your days, which is tantamount to death.
Get up, for soon you will fall asleep for many centuries."

17.
"Who is blessed?" - I asked a sage.
He answered: "How blind are the hearts of men!
Happy is he who is in the arms of his moon-faced woman
He spends the night with no end in sight. "

18.
Blessed is he who chose not a yoke, but freedom,
Who prayed for sunset, and also for sunrise,
Who - lowering the pouring jug lower and lower -
Drank the wine of being, and not fresh water.

19.
Do you remember a small drop that became a wave,
A handful of ashes that was mixed with the clay of the earth?
What is thy coming and going to the world? - Here is a fly:
It buzzed and became a continuous silence.

20.
I went to see a potter yesterday.
And he said to me: "Remember: we are dust in the wind.
The dust will settle to the ground, mix with clay,
To be resurrected as a jug at a drunken feast."