Bora Bora Quotes

You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now look at where the fuck we are

Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it.

… If I could make a wish I want to be just a little happier If I become too happy I will miss sadness

If I had a nickel for every time I almost died, I would have been driving to school in a Ferrari and flying off to Bora-Bora on the weekends.

Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival." "So... your religion dies with you. How sad," Dorolow said, looking back from Horza to the screen. The Changer let the remark pass.

Loneliness is the best state I can be in.It enables me to listen to my heart.

I could finally understand the horrific and cruel clarity of what he considered to be meaningful. The desperation and immense fear that your life, as well as the future to come, hinged on a moment.

Instead I said, “Flora Bora Slam, mothercrackers.

Nekako, uvek joj je zimi bivalo lakše. Da li što se tada biva usamljenijim, izdvojenijim od svega i svačega, jer se, u dubokim jesenima i dugačkim a jakim zimama, biva sasvim sam.

For some people, their lives are ruled by one shocking event reverberating through their survival instincts. Life shrinks into a trap made up of a shimmering moment in the past, a trap where they endlessly repeat that singular moment when they were surest of being alive. That moment is short, but long after it has passed, good times as well as bad slip like sand through their fingers as they meaninglessly repeat and confirm their survival.

If I could make one wish I want to be just a little happier If I'm too happy I will miss the sadness

But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

Life is a series of problems. Especially when one is married and has a family. Because even when you manage to avoid the problems of the outside world and return home safely, your family is there waiting with a whole different set of problems of their own.

Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones, the most enjoyable and good ones, in our own terms? Yes, we’re hedonists, Mr. Bora Horza Gobuchul. We seek pleasure and have fashioned ourselves so that we can take more of it; admitted. We are what we are. But what about you? What does that make you?

Poručnik Vaculić, star dvadeset i tri godine, govorio je: "Naš život stvarno je prošao najbolje što je mogao!

That was the first time he sobbed in earnest. Not the cries of someone driven mad with fear, but the tears of someone who understood and was saddened by their own loneliness—the tears of a human being.

Those who are unaware of their lives slipping away while they are ensnared in the past, are in the end, whether alive or dead, ghosts of the past

Zawadi bora ya maisha kwa mwanadamu si fursa ya kufanya kazi kwa bidii na kuwa kitu fulani katika jamii. Ni amani ya Mungu katika moyo wa mwanadamu.

Every person has only one childhood, and instead of being full of hopes or dreams, his had been crushed by the fight for survival. He never once imagined in all his years spent in the cave that a different childhood from the one that had been accorded to him might have been possible.

Had some giant trapped inside the cave of the night sky struck their chains against some unimaginably large wall to create the stars? Had they done it as a cry for help? Or to endure, somehow, the emptiness and the darkness?

I soon realised that just because it appeared that way didn't mean it was true. As my thinking changed, my experience changed.

Better late than never,but better than that is to be never late

Bora Bora.

I didn’t believe in any bright future for me. I didn’t know if I would even be able to make a living. Therefore, “a moment ago” was always the best moment, and the present was always better than the future.

The beauty of the island [Bora Bora} wasn't limited to its turquoise waters or green hills. That was mere surface beauty. The real awe of the place was evident in its stories. There was one waiting beyond every curve of the shore.

One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war

Capitalism is nothing before the forces of love and passion!

So I said Malakasham and Flora Bora Slam and Abra Wham, because everyone knew that you had to say magic words until magic happened.

Never make a cursed fetish for personal reasons. Never use a handmade object in a personal curse. There are reasons for the unwritten rules. There's a Japanese saying that goes, "Cursing other leads to two graves." Anyone who curses another person is sure to end up in a grave themselves.

Say you’re sitting in a cubicle and you hate your job. It’s terrible. Everyone around you is an asshole. Your boss is a dick. All of your work is just mind-numbingly soul-sucking. But in five minutes you are about to leave for your first vacation you’ve had in five years. You’re going to be gone for two weeks at this beautiful Bora Bora seaside bungalow. It’s literally the most lavish thing you’ve ever done in your entire life. How would you feel? You would feel great. Now imagine that you are in Bora Bora. You’re on this beautiful beach with amazing people, and you’ve had so much fun. In five minutes, you’re going to have to put down the piña colada with the little umbrella in it. You have to say goodbye to these people. You will go back to your terrible job and won’t take another vacation for another five years. How would you feel? You would feel terrible. Now, think about it. You’re sitting in the cubicle at the job that you hate and you feel awesome. And you’re sitting on the beach with a drink in your hand and you feel terrible. How you feel is entirely in your mind. Your mind has nothing to do with your environment. It has nothing to do with anyone around you. It is entirely your decision. Making a change in your life is as easy as making a decision and acting on it. That’s it.

Kitu cha kwanza kufanyika mwanadamu anapozaliwa ni kuvuta pumzi ya kwanza katika mapafu ya mwili wake. Cha mwisho kufanyika kabla ya kufa ni kutoa pumzi ya mwisho katika mapafu ya mwili wake. Pumzi iliyoingia kwanza baada ya kuzaliwa, itakuwa ya mwisho kutoka kabla ya kufa. Pumzi ni bora kuliko muda halafu pumzi ni uhai. Bila uhai watu hawataweza kusherehekea mwaka mpya au kufanya chochote. Likumbuke jina la Mwenyezi Mungu katika kila pumzi unayoingiza na kutoa.

I was never afraid of my monsters. I controlled them. I slept with them in the dark, and they never stepped beyond their boundaries. My monsters had never asked to be bora with bolts in their necks, scaly wings, blood hunger in their veins, or deformed faces from which beautiful girls shrank back in horror. My monsters were not evil; they were simply trying to survive in a tough old world. They reminded me of myself and my friends: ungainly, unlovely, beaten but not conquered. They were the outsiders searching for a place to belong in a cataclysm of villagers’ torches, amulets, crucifixes, silver bullets, radiation bombs, air force jets, and flamethrowers. They were imperfect, and heroic in their suffering.

Deda me je opomenuo: „Ti nikada nećeš da odrasteš!“ Ja sam mu odgovorio: „Šta mogu!“ Mama me je branila: „On nema vremena za to!“ Ja sam stalno pokušavao da odrastem kao i ostali ljudi, ali se odmah desilo nešto novo i mi smo ponovo ostali ono što smo bili.

If I could make one wish I want to be just a little happier It I'm too happy I will miss the sadness

A tiny thread can pass through the tiniest hole of the needle, just if you intend to sew.

Ukarimu ni bora kuliko hekima, na kulitambua hilo ndiyo mwanzo wa hekima.

Not the cries of someone driven mad with fear, but the tears of someone who understood and was saddened by their own loneliness—the tears of a human being.

Even when both sides agree to compromise, there is always a side that compromises more than the other.

In order to survive, children come to their own understanding of their place in their world. It looks as if children are limited in what they are conscious of, but they comprehend very quickly the intention of adults and the trust given to them, better and more precisely than adults themselves do.

The wife swiftly gathered her daughter in her arms. She shook off her son, who was still clinging to his sister's leg trying to drink her blood, and made a dash for the door. She was blocked by her husband. He needed his daughter's body if he were to get more blood from his son's. He couldn't let her leave with the source of his gold.

When I die                             do not throw                             the meat and bones away                             but pile them up                             and let them tell                             by their smell                             what life was worth                             on this earth                             what love was worth                             in the end.

Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora wa Afrika Kusini. Utu ukafanya awasamehe binadamu wenzake. Urithi wa Nelson Mandela kwetu ni uhodari, uvumilivu, uongozi bora, utu na msamaha kwa binadamu wenzetu. Mandela alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Afrika Kusini alikuwa mlezi wa ndoto, ya amani na uhuru.

...it doesn’t mean the world will change. There will still be those who will continue to be beaten in silence, and those who will continue to die in silence. But maybe there will also be those who will survive. And I want to be able to have as little shame as possible when I stand before those who do.

Kipo kitu kinaendelea kufanyika katika siku zetu za furaha na katika siku zetu za huzuni kwa kila mmojawetu hapa duniani bila ya upendeleo wowote. Kitu hicho ni kuingia na kutoka kwa pumzi, au kupumua. Ukiithamini pumzi inayoingia na kutoka ndani ya mwili wako utapata zawadi ya amani katika maisha yako. Utapata pia zawadi ya furaha, uelewa na ufasaha! Ijapokuwa una matatizo mengi katika maisha, kitu bora cha kufanya ni kushukuru Mungu kwa maana wewe ni mzima.

Do some magic,” Ryan whispered to me, right in my ear. “Slowly. So I can watch.” “When we get out of here, I’m going to do so much magic all over you,” I told him. “You’re going to be covered in it.” At that moment, I really wished I’d been born mute and had never set eyes on Ryan Foxheart. “Make it stop!” Gary wailed. “Yeah. Cover me in your magic.” Ryan was blushing so hard, I thought his face was about to explode. “I want to stop talking. You have no idea how much I want to stop talking.” He leaned closer and I could feel his breath on my face. It smelled of corn and eroticism. “Um,” Eloise said. “Maybe you guys could—” We ignored her completely. “I’m going to do so many spells,” I said, because it seemed impossible for me to stop. “You won’t even believe how many spells I can do. Flora Bora Slam, motherfucker.” Our lips were inches apart. “I want you to Flora Bora Slam me,” Ryan said and I just choked. “Therapy,” Gary said. “I’m going to need so much therapy. It’s like watching cows mating and it’s wet and sticky and uncomfortable but I can’t look away because I’m worried some of it is going to get on me.

She cried until the sun started to set, until the birds settled into their trees. She’d have to tell her siblings he was gone. She felt embarrassed, thinking of how excited she’d been to take them to Bora-Bora. She grew cold, sitting outside in Brandon’s underwear. And then she stood up and dried her eyes. And she thought of June. She’d lived this all before, of course. Watching her mother go through it. Family histories repeat, Nina thought. For a moment, she wondered if it was pointless to try to escape it. Maybe our parents’ lives are imprinted within us, maybe the only fate there is is the temptation of reliving their mistakes. Maybe, try as we might, we will never be able to outrun the blood that runs through our veins. Or. Or maybe we are free the moment we’re born. Maybe everything we’ve ever done is by our own hands.

I’ve always wanted to take a swim wherever it is they snap those screensaver photos—Fiji? Bora Bora? The Maldives?—and sleep in a hotel room that’s more of a hut built on a dock over the water. After reading The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, I’m dying to see the sun set in Botswana. I want to visit Indian temples and volunteer at an elephant sanctuary.

Era un peisaj de vis. O imagine ruptă, parcă, din poveste.

Anyone who opposes the laws of the nature, at the end falls victim of the nature, soon or later. (Sentence from my book, Tora-Bora mountains)

Sentensi bora katika medani ya uandishi ni sentensi fupi, angavu, sahihi, yenye mantiki, na kamilifu.

Sentensi ni mkusanyiko wa maneno unaoanza na herufi kubwa na kuisha na alama ya kushangaa, kuuliza, au nukta. Sentensi bora ni fupi, angavu, sahihi, yenye mantiki, na kamilifu.

Hope exists if you think it to existence. If you don't have any, you can just make it up.

Achievements make us thankful; struggles make us stronger. When we appreciate our struggles, adversities become opportunities - isn’t that the essence of life?

Humans are born, they grow, they are active, they age, and then die. That is human.

There’s a Japanese saying that goes, “Cursing others leads to two graves.” Anyone who curses another person is sure to end up in a grave themselves

For some people, their lives are ruled by one shocking event reverberating through their survival instincts. Life shrinks into a trap made up of a shimmering moment in the past, a trap where they endlessly repeat that singular moment when they were surest of being alive. That moment is short, but long after it has passed, good times as well as bad slip like sand through their fingers as they meaninglessly repeat and confirm their survival. Those who are unaware of their lives slipping away while they are ensnared in the past—him, his grandfather, his mother, me—are in the end, whether alive or dead, ghosts of the past.

If we could understand that god so well, they wouldn't be a god in the first place. But I believe there is something that's grander than what we can perceive with our five senses or comprehend with our human minds.

When storms come, an eagle flies higher in order to rise above the turbulence while a mouse hides in a corner. I had to become that eagle and soar higher, not be cornered, and crushed in the storm of life. Believing in myself was the only way.

The sun doesn't rise because you people gave it a permit. The rain doesn't fall because you people gave it a permit, either. Long, long before you created your corporations and became obsessed with profit, nature existed. We are simply living by it.

With Catherine Bora there entered a new light into the dwelling of Luther. To sweetness and modesty, she added a more than ordinary share of good sense. A genuine disciple of the Gospel, she became the faithful companion and help-meet of the Reformer in all the labors and trials of his subsequent life.

The absurdity of the conclusion made him feel helpless. The strangers who stole his childhood with their sorcerer and beliefs, the despondent life he had lived on the brink of death, it had all been meaningless in the end. Mourning his years of suffering and despair, he stood there in the ruins of the village and wept.

Bir umarının kalmadığını düşündüğü zamanlarda sessiz bir reddedişin içine dalar büyük bir sükunetle olabileceklere göğüs germeye çalışmaktan vazgeçer, eğilmez, bükülmez ve kendini ölesiye bu çaresizliğe bırakırdı. Baş edemediği hayatının ve dünyanın karanlığından kurtulmayı değil de onun bir parçası olmayı yeğlerdi iyice kaybettiği zamanlarda.

Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader...Bin laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains.

I could also understand how, in a situation where there was a single person who could kill you but also save you, all your survival instincts would be used toward satisfying that one person. Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it. Parents who destroy their children's lives, who suck the life out of their children's futures, not only for the sake of maintaining their own illusions but also to zealously expand them into the lives of their own children- such parents can almost be understood from the perspective of obsession. Following the words, "Be grateful I raised you" is the implied clause "instead of killing you or leaving you for dead.

Still, if I mourn and mourn with my body and soul, if I go out into the streets and act and try with what strength I have to make a difference for the sake of my survival and the survival of others, that can’t be taken away. I will not be ashamed before the victims and their families, and we will be progressing slowly, very slowly but surely, toward a better world for both you and me—as we survive, and remember, and mourn.

Mbegu tunazopanda leo ni mazao ya msimu ujao. Ukipanda mbegu mbaya utavuna mabaya. Ukipanda mbegu nzuri utavuna mazuri. Ukitenda mabaya leo kesho yako itakuwa mbaya. Ukitenda mazuri leo kesho yako itakuwa nzuri. Okoa kesho leo kwa kupanda mbegu nzuri na kuzimwagilia kwa imani na upendo kwa watu. Mungu ataleta mvua, jua na ustawi wa mazao yako. Panda mbegu ya msamaha kwa maadui zako, uvumilivu kwa wapinzani wako, tabasamu kwa marafiki zako, mfano bora kwa watoto wako, uchapakazi kwa kazi zako, uadilifu kwa waajiri wako na kwa wafanyakazi wako pia kama unao, ndoto kwa malengo yako, na uaminifu kwa marafiki zako wa ukweli. Kila mbegu irutubishwe kwa mapenzi huru yasiyokuwa na masharti yoyote, au mapenzi huru yasiyokuwa na unafiki wa aina yoyote ile. Usifiche vipaji vyako. Ukiwa kimya utasahaulika. Usipopiga hatua utarudi nyuma. Usiwe na hasira, wivu au ubinafsi.

George W. Bush gave this response to the question of ‘Why do they hate us?’: ‘…They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote…’ If these analyses are correct, it would appear that Bin Laden and his gang in Tora Bora had simply stumbled onto a copy of the Bill of Rights and gone berserk….We are not hated for who we are or what we believe; we are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that are despised; it is our policies.

The invisible alleyways of the air have twisted through mythology, in and out of landscapes and cultures, from zephyrs to howling gales. I have met the characters of the winds, and know the qualities they bring: the Bora strength and clarity; the Foehn destruction and depression; the Sirocco debilitation; the Mistral beauty and madness. Now it seems, hoping against hope, I am about to know the Helm – if only the Bar will come – and the wildness of the chase fills me, pulls me on.

Badilisha tabia. Badilisha mazingira ya maisha yako. Haijalishi una umri kiasi gani au wewe ni mwanamke au mwanamume, bado hujachelewa kubadili maisha yako kutoka duni kuwa bora – kuwa na amani, furaha na kuridhika. Kama desturi yako ni kuamka saa 12:00 asubuhi kila siku ili ufike kazini saa 2:00 asubuhi ambao ni muda wa serikali wa kuanza kazi, amka saa 11:30 asubuhi ili ufike kazini saa 1:30 asubuhi – nusu saa kabla ya kuanza kazi. Kama unafanya kazi ya taaluma uliyosomea lakini maisha hayaendi, fikiria kubadili mwelekeo wa maisha ikiwemo taaluma kufikia malengo uliyojiwekea.

Fast-forward about twenty years: I was in Bora Bora on vacation. I was scuba diving, and thirty or so lemon sharks started hovering around me in the water. My first thought was, Wow, this is a lot more terrifying up close and personal than it is on Discovery Channel Shark Week. My next thought was, What do I do? I know the name lemon shark sounds sweet, but look it up. They are the ugliest, most terrifying sharks, and they get up to about ten feet long. That’s big enough to take off your head in a single bite. I hadn’t signed up for a shark encounter. In fact, they didn’t tell us much about what to expect down there, and there was no training session. It was more like, “Are you certified? Okay, just jump in.” After several minutes of being stalked by this pack of predators, I was overcome by a calmness. I remember feeling the sharks brush past my head and knock into my back. I couldn’t keep my eye on all of them--they were everywhere--so I just let it be. They didn’t bother me, and I didn’t bother them. Instead, the thing that freaked me out on the dive was a harmless little suckerfish that decided to hang out in my face. Every time I turned around, he was there, stalking me.

Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle” that was “free of the fetters of capitalism.” The woman herself, when she was in college, had considered the conformist pressures of getting good grades, building a resume, and landing a job in some big corporation to be tedious and distasteful and had thought the life her husband wanted dovetailed with hers. They got married as soon as she graduated, and she got a job right after. She learned quickly that an “alternative lifestyle” meant nothing without a detailed, concrete plan, and living “free of the fetters of capitalism” meant working for places that didn’t pay their workers on time. As she worried about realizing this alternative lifestyle in the real world, she crumbled away under the pressures of working at a company in the non-profit sector that was run not by the normal labor of workers, but through their unrequited sacrifices. Meanwhile, her husband, who was her upperclassman in college but graduated later than she did, fiddled around in search of his ideal “alternative lifestyle” without ever settling down on any particular profession—the result being the twenty-million-won loan he had taken out and used up without her knowledge.

A redução da cultura africana ao status de vazio folclore não revela somente o desprezo ao negro da sociedade vigente, branca, como também exibe a avareza com que essa sociedade explora o afro-brasileiro e sua cultura com intuitos lucrativos. Pois em bora a religião e a arte sejam tão ridicularizadas e folclorizadas, elas constituem valiosas e rentáveis mercadorias no comércio turístico. Nesse caminho as manifestações religiosas negras tornam-se "curiosidades" para entreter visitantes brancos. A folclorização dá um passo em frente ao desenvolver outra etapa do tratamento dispensado à cultura afro-brasileira pela sociedade dominante: a sua comercialização.

Kad započnu priče o vjetrovima nema im kraja. Ne govori se samo o onima koji pušu u okolici, nego i drugdje, nadaleko. Stanovnici ih dočekuju na razne načine, prepoznaju ih i slute, nagovješćuju, tumače, spore se oko njih. Poznaju - ili vjeruju da poznaju - ne samo njihovu narav i ćudi, smjer ili snagu, nego i težinu im, čak i zapreminu, prepoznaju njihovu huku, miris, dodir, “boju i same oblike” (prenosim riječi i rečenice koje je maločas izgovorio Zane). Kolika je doista težina vjetra i kakva mu je zapremina, što je njegova snaga i u čemu je praznina, miriše li i koje je boje, zašto huči ili ječi, kako dodiruje okolne predmete i čime to čini - o tome svjedoče pamćenja i ispovijedi. Od toga ponekad i nastaju priče. Ima li i vjetar sjenu ? - jedni postavljaju takva pitanja, drugi ih smatraju neumjesnima. Oblike vjetra odaju povijene grane masline i bora, polegli buseni i trsovi, povaljano šiblje i trska - u njima su njegovi otisci : igre, figure, bjesovi. Svemu što mu se nađe na putu vjetar oduzima ili pridaje neke vlastite boje - boje vjetra koje se ne naziru prostim okom. Pokupi i raznese sjeme i cvat brnistre, rute i ruzmarina, oduzme ili preda okolici mirise kadulje, sljeza, lavande i svega što zatekne unaokolo, na kopnu ili površini mora, u samoj Laguni. Zemlja i pijesak se pod njegovim naletom povuku i ogole, stijene i zidovi se udube i ogule. Burama i tramontanama nisu odoljele ni prošlost ni povijest Venecije.

French Polynesia embraces a vast ocean area strewn with faraway outer islands, each with a mystique of its own. The 118 islands and atolls are scattered over an expanse of water 18 times the size of California, though in dry land terms the territory is only slightly bigger than Rhode Island. The distance from one end of the island groups to another is four times further than from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Every oceanic island type is represented in these sprawling archipelagoes positioned midway between California and New Zealand. The coral atolls of the Tuamotus are so low they’re threatened by rising sea levels, while volcanic Tahiti soars to 2,241 meters. Bora Bora and Maupiti, also high volcanic islands, rise from the lagoons of what would otherwise be atolls.

Never rise your voice in front of girls because once if they start then nobody can't stop them

What good is angel if i have fallen for a Jezebel

doing hundred works at a time in a single way is a result of planning and doing the same hundred works in hundred different ways is a result of talent

complicated life is more better then a complicated gal atleast u can think lonely to make it perfect

Life is like a beautiful dream you feels good until you open your eyes and once you open you cant dream the same dream again..so each and every moment of life is like those beautiful dream which are not gonna back in your life again.

Sen anlattıklarımı sahiplenip başka yerlerde sözünü etme diye. Bu kadar kolay yutma diye. Eğer olacaksa ikimizin arasında acıdan bir sezgi, büyüyecekse dinlediklerinin bütün sesleri, sadece bu şekilde anlatmayı becerebildiğim için değil, bu şekilde ancak anlatırsam, ikimizin arasında, yalnız ikimizin arasında yaşayacaktır diye. Karmaşık ve üstü örtük de olsa anlattıklarımı sokaklarda alnında gezdiremeyesin diye. Anlamıyor musun, her şeyin olmaya çalışıyorum senin. Benim sana anlattıklarımda kendiden bir şeyler bulamayasın diye bu kadar kapalı anlatıyorum ben.

Hatırlıyorum da bir gün Müşfik oynamaktan yorduğu bir arabanın tekerleklerinin oyuncağın içinde kaldığını söyleyip ağlayarak yanıma gelmişti. Mavi, plastik bir arabaydı. Dışarıdan bakıldığında tekerleksiz olduğunu anladım anlamasına da beni o an yıkan ve birden kendimi görmeme sebep olan tekerleklerin arabanın içinde kalmasıydı. Dışarıda ya da kaybolmuş değillerdi. Kırılmış da değillerdi. Arabanın içindeydiler, sallıyorduk havada ve sesleri geliyordu içinden ama arabayı kırmadan, parçalamadan çıkaramazdık onları. Ben o gün anladım o araba gibi olduğumu.

Aklı olmadığı için saf iyiliğin içinde o. Düşünmüyor. Hayata karşı en ufak bir müdahalesi yok. Aklı olan iyi bir insan olmaz ki.

Bilecik'e deniz gelmesi iyi oldu da gökyüzünü unuttuk.

Güzel kızım biliyor musun, bazı kelebekler kozalarından tam gelişmeden hasarlı çıkarlarmış ve bilenin aksine bir gün değil de günlerce o yarım halleriyle yaşarlarmış.

Umri sahihi wa kuoa au kuolewa kulingana na kanuni ya ndoa iitwayo ‘optimal stopping’ ni miaka 26. Kanuni hii ya hesabu hujulikana kama kanuni ya asilimia 37, welekeo wa 0.37 wa kumpata mwenza bora zaidi katika maisha yako kuliko wengine wote.

Masharti ya kanuni ya ndoa ya kuachana na ukapera yanakutaka uwe umeshatembea na kukataa asilimia 37 ya wapenzi wako katika kipindi chote cha maisha yako, ili kumpata mpenzi mmoja bora zaidi ambaye ndiye hasa utakayeoa au kuolewa naye.

Kama umeamua kuoa au kuolewa ukiwa na umri wa kati ya miaka 18 na 40, kulingana na kanuni ya kuachana na ukapera (‘optimal stopping’) umri wa kuwa na msimamo kuhusiana na mtu utakayeoa au kuolewa naye ni baada tu ya kufikisha umri wa miaka 26. Kabla ya hapo kuna uwezekano ukakosa wachumba bora, baada ya hapo wachumba bora wanaweza kuanza kupotea, hivyo kukupunguzia uwezekano wa kumpata mke au mume aliye mwema.

Tovuti za miadi (‘dating sites’) hutumia ‘optimal stopping’ kuwachagulia watu wachumba wao. Wanachofanya ni kwamba wanachagua watu 100. Wanaondoa 37% ya kwanza ya wale ambao sifa zao haziendani na sifa unazozitaka. Kisha wanakuchagulia mtu waliyeona ni bora zaidi kuliko wote waliobakia. Huyo waliyekuchagulia anaweza kuwa mke au mume bora. Lakini Mungu ana mipango yake. Unaweza kushangaa mke au mume bora akatoka kwenye 37% ya wale walioachwa.

Mtu anaweza kusema ana wachumba sita ambao anafikiria kuchagua mmoja kuwa mke au mume. Akichagua kiholela atakuwa na hakika 9% ya kumpata mwenza bora wa maisha. Lakini akitumia ‘optimal stopping’ atakuwa na hakika 37%!

Mbegu ni neno la Mungu. Mfano bora, msamaha, ndoto, tabasamu, uadilifu, uaminifu, uchapakazi na uvumilivu ni maneno ya Mungu. Kwa hiyo mfano bora, msamaha, ndoto, tabasamu, uadilifu, uaminifu, uchapakazi na uvumilivu ni mbegu. Watu ni ardhi. Panda mbegu ya mfano bora kwa watoto wako, msamaha kwa maadui zako, ndoto kwa malengo yako, tabasamu kwa marafiki zako, uadilifu kwa waajiri wako na kwa wafanyakazi wako pia kama unao, uaminifu kwa marafiki zako wa ukweli, uchapakazi kwa kazi zako na uvumilivu kwa wapinzani wako. Kila mbegu irutubishwe kwa imani na upendo kwa watu.

Mbegu ni neno la Mungu. Mfano bora, msamaha, ndoto, tabasamu, uadilifu, uaminifu, uchapakazi na uvumilivu ni maneno ya Mungu. Kwa hiyo mfano bora, msamaha, ndoto, tabasamu, uadilifu, uaminifu, uchapakazi na uvumilivu ni mbegu. Watu ni ardhi. Panda mbegu ya mfano bora kwa watoto wako, msamaha kwa maadui zako, ndoto kwa malengo yako, tabasamu kwa marafiki zako, uadilifu kwa waajiri wako na kwa wafanyakazi wako pia kama unao, uaminifu kwa marafiki zako wa ukweli, uchapakazi kwa kazi zako na uvumilivu kwa wapinzani wako. Kila mbegu irutubishwe kwa imani na upendo kwa watu. Katika mfano huu ukuaji unawakilisha utakaso, ambao ni muundo wa taswira ya Mungu ndani yetu kwa kuishi kama anavyoishi yeye kwa nguvu ya Roho Mtakatifu. Tunachotakiwa kufanya baada ya kupanda mbegu ni kutimiza wokovu wetu sisi wenyewe kwa kuogopa na kutetemeka. Kutimiza wokovu wetu sisi wenyewe ni sawa na mvua, jua, palizi, mbolea, ili mavuno yaweze kuwa ya uhakika.

Usipobadilika hutapata mwenza bora wa kuoana naye.

Akili ya mipango ni bora kuliko akili ya darasani.

Israeli ilifikia kikomo cha kipindi chake kikubwa cha mafanikio tangu enzi za Sulemani. Taifa lilikuwa tajiri. Lilikuwa na nguvu. Lilikuwa na silaha nyingi na nzuri zaidi. Lilikuwa taifa lililojidai kwa uwezo wake mkubwa wa nguvu za kijeshi, hekima, ujasiri, utajiri, na faida za kimkakati. Nani angeweza kushindana na Israeli? Lakini Mungu hunguruma onyo kwamba uwezo wote mkubwa wa asili wa taifa, ujuzi waliojipatia, na sifa bora zaidi havikuweza kulisaidia taifa la Israeli. Watu huona nguvu ya taifa katika utajiri wake, idadi yake ya watu, silaha za kijeshi, teknolojia, na maarifa. Lakini Mungu huangalia haki.

Bora içeri girip kapıyı kapattığı gibi ışığı açmak için elini uzatınca diğer elimi uzatıp o elini de tuttum. "Karanlık aydınlıktan daha güzel..." diye fısıldadım. "Ama konuşmamız gerekiyor!" dedi tereddüt eder gibi. "Susmak konuşmaktan daha güzel..." dedim. Öyleydi, yokluklar varlıklardan daha güzeldi bazen. Işığın yokluğu, kelimelerin, konuşmaların, seslerin yokluğu, renklerin, kokuların, varlıkların yokluğu her zaman daha güzeldi. Biz, 'biz olabilmek' istiyorsak görmeden de olacaktık, duymadan da. Çünkü 'biz olmak' varlıkta da yoklukta da olunabiliyorsa mümkündü. Konuşarak herkes 'biz olurdu' asıl mesele konuşmadan da olmaktı.

Fiji is amazing but so are Maui and Bora Bora.

International. Facing it from Kalakaua, I looked at the totem poles on my left, garishly painted, contorted faces carved upon them. Farther left, and extending from the Avenue into the grounds, was Don the Beachcomber’s Bora Bora Lounge, in which — according to a sign outside it — was the famous Dagger Bar. On my right was the first of many little stores and shops. This one was Polynesian, crammed with idols, wood-carvings, jewelry in glass cases, a model outrigger canoe in the front window. Beyond it, all around and in the Market Place,

We walked on to Don the Beachcomber’s Bora Bora Lounge and went inside, sat at the Dagger Bar. Loana ordered a Cherry Blossom and I ordered, after slight hesitation, a Puka Puka.

As Senate investigators later concluded, the events at Tora Bora “forever altered the course of the conflict in Afghanistan and the future of international terrorism.