When you fall in love, it is temporary madness; it erupts like an earthquake and then it subsides. When it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconvincible that you should ever part, because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to make every second of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body…. That is just being in love, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away. Doesn’t sound very exciting, but it is. Do you think that you could begin to imagine that this is how you will come to fell with someone?

"به تو بگویم"


دیگر جا نیست
قلب اَت پر از اندوه است
آسمان هایِ توآبی رنگی یِ گرمای اَش را از دست داده است

زیرِ آسمانی بی رنگ و بی جلا زنده گی می کنی
بر زمینِ تو، باران، چهره یِ عشق های اَت را پُر ابله می کند
پرنده گان اَت همه مرده اَند
در صحرایی بی سایه و بی پرنده زنده گی می کنی
.آن جا که هر گیاه در انتظارِ سرودِ مرغی خاکستر می شود

دیگر جا نیست
قلب اَت پُر از اندوه است
خدایانِ آسمان های اَت
بر خاک افتاده اَند
چون کودکی
بی پناه و تنها مانده ای
از وحشت می خندی
.و غروری کودن از گریستن پرهیزت می دهد

این است انسانی که از خود ساخته ای
از انسانی که من دوست داشتم
.که من دوست می دارم

دوشادوشِ زنده گی
در همه یِ نبردها جنگیده بودی
نفرینِ خدایان در تو کارگر نبود
و اکنون ناتوان و سرد
مرا در برابرِ تنهایی

.به زانو در می آوری

آیا تو جلوه یِ روشنی از تقدیرِ مصنوعِ انسان هایِ قرنِ مایی؟
انسان هایی که من دوست می داشتم
که من دوست می دارم؟


دیگر جا نیست
.قلب اَت پُر از اندوه است

می ترسی –به تو بگویم- تو از زنده گی می ترسی
از مرگ بیش از زنده گی
.از عشق بیش از هر دو می ترسی

به تاریکی نگاه می کنی
از وحشت می لرزی
و مرا در کنارِ خود
از یاد

.می بری

از مجموعه یِ : هوای تاره

Some Quotes By Peter Drucker, Mostly about General Managemnet

“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”

“Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.”

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision”

“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“Meetings are a symptom of bad organization, the fewer meetings the better.”

“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

“Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.”

“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right”

“Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise.”

“The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.”

“Decision making is the specific executive task.”

“One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.”

“The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

“Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.”

“We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is writing books about it.”

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”

“What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.”

“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.”

“Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

“Leadership is not magnetic personality /that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”

"Life goes on" By: Beccy Cole

Saw a friend the other day,
I hadn't seen in quite a while
I remember when she used to smile
I listened to her story....
broken promised and shattered dreams
Told me things ain't always what they seem
When I gave her my sympathy
she said living with regret is something
that comes naturally

Sometimes you gotta roll with the punches
Sometimes you go against the grain
Sometimes your hard work pays off
Sometimes it's all in vain
But no matter what you endure, rest assured
Life goes on......Life Goes On

As she turned to walk away, said girl I'm going to be all right
Life is just a fair and honest fight
I learned a brand new lesson
If you look beyond the clouds of grey,
the pot of gold is one rainbow away
It's just a matter...of moving on
Don't get caught up in the endless battle proving right from wrong

Sometimes you gotta roll with the punches
Sometimes you go against the grain
Sometimes your hard work pays off
Sometimes it's all in vain
But no matter what you endure.....rest assured
Life Goes On......
Life goes on
Every smile is
And the sound of laughter echoes like a symphony

از مجموعه ی "ابراهیم در آتش" سروده ی زنده یاد شاملو

"بر سرمایِ درون"

همه
لرزشِ دست و دل اَم
از آن بود
که عشق

، پناهی گردد
پروازی نه
.گریزگاهی گردد

آی عشق آی عشق

.چهره یِ آبی اَت پیدا نیست

--

و خنکایِ مرهمی
بر شعله یِ زخمی
نه شورِ شعله
.بر سرمایِ درون

آی عشق آی عشق
.چهره یِ سرخ اَت پیدا نیست

--

و غبارِ تیره یِ تسکینی
بر حضورِ وَهن
و دنجِ رهایی
،بر گریزِ حضور
سیاهی
بر آرامشِ آبی
و سبزه یِ برگچه
.بر ارغوان

آی عشق آی عشق
رنگِ آشنای اَت
. پیدا نیست

Soulmate...

I Carve Your Mouth, Your Voice ..

DON'T GO FAR OFF, NOT EVEN FOR A DAY
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because ---
because I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.
.
Don't leave me, even for an hour; because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams for a home will drift
into me choking my lost heart.
.
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelid never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,
because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wonder mazily over all the earth, asking
Will you come back? Will you leave me here dying?

By: Poblo Neruda

"If You Forget Me"

I want you to know

one thing.

.

You know how this is:

if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch

of the slow autumn at my window,

if I touch near the fire

the impalpable ash

or the wrinkled body of the log,

everything carries me to you,

as if everything that exists,

aromas, light, metals,

were little boats

that sail toward those isles

of yours that wait for me.

.

Well, now,

if little by little you stop loving me

I shall stop loving you little by little.

.

If suddenly

you forget me

do not look for me,

for I shall already have forgotten you.

.

If you think it long and mad,

the wind of banners

that passes through my life,

and you decide

to leave me at the shore

of the heart where I have roots,

remember

that on that day,

at that hour,

I shall lift my arms

and my roots will set off

to seek another land.

.

But if each day,

each hour,

you feel that you are destined for me

with implacable sweetness,

if each day a flower

climbs up to your lips to seek me,

ah my love, ah my own,

in me all that fire is repeated,

in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,

my love feeds on your love, beloved,

and as long as you live it will be in your arms

without leaving mine.

By: Pablo Neruda