When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
OMAR KHAYYAM
OMAR KHAYYAM
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Omar Khayyam92 quotes“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”
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Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam To wisely live your life, you don’t need to know much just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return’d to me, And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Men talk of heaven, – there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, – there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, – O love, there is no other life – but here.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam My friend, let’s not think of tomorrow, but let’s enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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