by Kabir
Plucking your eyebrows,
Putting on mascara,
But will that help you
To see things anew?
The one who sees
Is changed into
The one who’s seen
Only if one is
Salt and the other
Water. But you, says Kabir,
Are a dead
Lump of quartz.
— Translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
by Mikhal Dekel
Story of Polish people driven from their homes by the Nazis during WWII. They travel first to Russia, then exiled to gulags in Siberia. Some ended up as refugees in Iran, then finally to Palestine.
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. – Lao Tzu
by Stephen Ambrose
The book the well-known TV series was based on. Good book. One criticism would be that he uses some military jargon that I had to keep looking up.
by Emily Dickenson
Had I not seen the Sun
I could have borne the shade
But Light a newer Wilderness
My Wilderness has made
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by Maria Bramford
funny.
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan