Omar Khayyam Quotes

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• 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

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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• 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

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• Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.

  Omar Khayyam

  Sweet, Yesterday, Today

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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 don’t hurt others.

  Omar Khayyam

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

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• 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 Khayyam

  Men, Heaven, Religion

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• To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

  Omar Khayyam

  Belief, Unbelief

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• I have not asked for life.
  But I try to accept whatever
  life brings without surprise.
  And I shall depart again without having
  questioned anyone about my strange
  stay here on earth.

  Omar Khayyam

  Trying, Earth, Strange

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• 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

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• The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
  Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
  Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
  Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving On, Writing, Science

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• I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Wind, Water

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

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• Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

  Omar Khayyam

  Lonely, Kings, Book

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

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• It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
  and is deprived of the light
  of a heart ablaze.
  The day on which you are
  without passionate love
  is the most wasted day of your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Heart, Love Is, Fire

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• Justice is the soul of the universe.

  Omar Khayyam

  Justice, Soul, Universe

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Sufistic Quatrains”, p.680, Omar Khayyam

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• 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

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• A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Jugs, Bread

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• My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Love, Sexy, Thinking

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• 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

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• The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.

  Omar Khayyam

  Rose, Forever, Dies

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• If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I?

  Omar Khayyam

  Enjoy, Enjoyment, Ifs

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• 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

  Chess, Boards, Pieces

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: In English Prose”

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• You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.

  Omar Khayyam

  Home, Horizon, World

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• 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

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