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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Life #Happiness #Being Happy
“As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but donâ€™t hurt others.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Hurt #Pain #Grief
“And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Light #Wrath #Taverns
“The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Appreciation #Men #Class
“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Wine #Giving #Rose
“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Wisdom #Two #Live Your Life
“How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Heart #Moon #Light
“Realise this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy, because you don't know where you came from and you don't know where you will be going.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Waiting #Soul #One Day
“My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Love #Sexy #Thinking
“We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Pieces #Chess #Boards
“A hair divides what is false and true.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Hair
“Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Life #Wise #Wisdom
“The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Single #Thoughtful #Solitude
“How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Atheist #Prayer #Wine
“I canâ€™t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I canâ€™t state at length what Iâ€™ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I canâ€™t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Secret #Saint #Mystery
“But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Life #Moving #Night
“Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Drinking #Drink
“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Carpe Diem #Understanding #Trying
“In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Soul #Paradise #Retreat
“When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Children #Rain #Night
“Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Fruit #Bitter #Pleasure
“The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Moving On #Writing #Science
“Don't cry upon you losses Don't mesure today with tommorows Don't trust to passed and coming day Believe in now - and be happy today.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Wisdom #Believe #Loss
“So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Book #Writing #Names
“The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Two #Alchemist #Gold
“Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Littles #Cups #Dry
“Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Atheism #Fool #Rewards
“This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Strong #Stars #Heart
“For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Magic #Shadow #World
“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”
-- Omar Khayyam

#Death #Song #Lying

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