और औरत होने का सबसे बड़ा और इकलौता सुकून यह है कि आप जब चाहें अपनी असलियत से ज़्यादा बेवकूफ होने का नाटक कर सकती हैं और किसी को भी इस पर हैरानी नहीं होती।
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
यदि हम मजबूत हैं, जीवन और उसकी अनपेक्षित खुशियों में हमारा भरोसा है, और हम अपने हाथों से नाव की पतवार मजबूती से थामे रखते हैं, तो मुझे पूरा विश्वास है कि हम अपने बुढ़ापे की बेला में शांत और सुहाने किनारों पर पहुँच ही जाएंगे।
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.
चाहे कोई इंसान हो या राष्ट्र, सफल जीवन की सबसे पहली और अनिवार्य शर्त यह है कि वह मृत्यु को स्वीकार करे।
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
बीता हुआ कल हमारी अमूल्य धरोहर है। इसके कारनामे, चाहे हम उनके बारे में जानें या न जानें, अपनी पूरी ताकत के साथ हमारे जीवन में रच-बस जाते हैं। हम अपनी आगे की यात्रा के लिए इसी से रसद जुटाते हैं; यह संचित ज्ञान एक ऐसी फसल है जिसे हम काटते हैं और अपने साथ ले चलते हैं, भले ही हम कभी उन खेतों में दोबारा न लौट सकें जहाँ यह उपजी थी।
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.
प्रकृति में जिज्ञासा ही एकमात्र ऐसी चीज़ है जिसे कभी हराया नहीं जा सकता।
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
हर सीमा अपने उस पार एक नए विरोध को जन्म देने के लिए अभिशप्त होती है। बिना सीमाओं के शांति की स्थापना केवल सार्वभौमिकता के ज़रिए ही संभव है।
every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
क्रिसमस... कोई बाहरी आयोजन नहीं है, बल्कि यह घर का वह टुकड़ा है जिसे इंसान हमेशा अपने दिल में बसाए रखता है।
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
जीवन में जो कुछ किसी दूसरे रास्ते पर चलकर हो सकता था, उस पर माथापच्ची करना समय की बर्बादी के सिवा कुछ नहीं है।
it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
एक जीवन तो इस अनुभव के लिए बहुत ही छोटा है।
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
यह दुनिया अब बहुत सी चीज़ों से इतनी भर गई है कि यह सामान से भरे किसी ओवर-फर्निश्ड कमरे जैसी लगने लगी है।
The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
देने में दरियादिली है, तो पाने में कोमलता है।
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
मैं इस नतीजे पर पहुँचा हूँ कि किसी भी और चीज़ से ज़्यादा, हमारी बिना सोचे-समझे बोली गई बातें हम सबके भविष्य को खतरे में डाल रही हैं।
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
जीवित मात्र का एक छोटा सा तिनका भी इंसान की बनाई हर चीज़ से कहीं गहरी ज़रूरत को पूरा करता है, क्योंकि वह नश्वर है। उसमें जीवन, विकास और बदलाव की एक क्षणभंगुरता होती है: वह हमारी तरह ही एक दौर से दूसरे दौर में, अंधेरे से अंधेरे की ओर, उस दूरी की तरफ़ बढ़ जाता है जहाँ हम भी नजरों से ओझल हो जाते हैं। कला की कोई भी कृति स्थिर होती है; और यही उसकी खूबी भी है और कमजोरी भी। लेकिन घास का वह छोटा सा तिनका और उसके ऊपर तैरते बादल हमारे इस सफर के सच्चे साथी हैं।
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
शैली हर इंसान की अपनी अनूठी विशेषता होती है; वह किसी एक व्यक्तित्व को व्यक्त करती है और सिर्फ़ उसी को, इसे किसी के साथ बाँटा नहीं जा सकता।
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
धर्म के प्रचार के جنون (वायरस) से आज़ाद होने पर, हमारे देवी-देवताओं की उपासना किसी को आहत नहीं करती। अगर इस बात को समझ लिया जाए तो यह दुनिया बेहद शांत हो जाए, और चाहे वह ईसाई धर्म हो, साम्यवादी हो या कोई अन्य, हर धर्म अपने विकास के लिए धर्म-परिवर्तन के बजाय अपने कर्म और आचरण पर भरोसा करे।
Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
यात्रा रोज़मर्रा की ज़िंदगी के साथ वही करती है जो अच्छे उपन्यासकार करते हैं; वह इसे किसी तस्वीर की फ्रेम या नगीने की तरह जड़ देती है, जिससे इसकी असली खूबियाँ और खुलकर सामने आ जाती हैं। यात्रा हमारी आम ज़िंदगी के कच्चे माल के साथ यही कमाल करती है, और उसे कला जैसी पैनी नुकीलता और गहरा अर्थ प्रदान करती है।
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
मुझे वाकई लगता है कि जब हम तीस साल के आसपास के हों, जब हमने अपने शरीर का ठीक से खयाल रखना सीख लिया हो, तो हमें एक नया शरीर मिल जाना चाहिए।
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
एकरसता (मोनोटनी) को कोई गुण मानकर उसकी पूजा नहीं की जानी चाहिए; और न ही वैवाहिक बिस्तर को महज़ सुरक्षा पाने का ताबूत समझना चाहिए, बल्कि यह तो एक ऐसा विश्राम-स्थल होना जहाँ से ताज़ा दम होकर उठा जा सके।
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
असli maali zameen par dheere aur naazuk haath pherta hai taaki kuch khaas paudhon ke ird-gird saans lene ki jagah ban sake, lekin uska dhyan tabahi par nahi hota, wo toh bas yoon hi ho jaata hai. Sirf mere jaisa shauqeen hi is mamle mein deewana ho jaata hai aur bade-bade ghaas-phoos ya kharpatwar ko ukhaadne ki khushi mein ek sadistic maza leta hai, yahan tak ki phoolon ko lagbhag bhool hi jaata hai aur aakhirkar ek Sudhaarhak (Reformer) ban baithta hai.
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.
Machine ke chahe jitne bhi fayde hon—aur wo hain bhi bohot—iske istemal ki aasaani hi insaano, jaanwaron aur us kudarat ke saath hamare gahre taalluq aur aapas ki baat-cheet ko khatam kar degi, jise hum aaj bhi kudrati duniya maante hain.
Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.
Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.
Ishtiharon (advertisements) ne sachai ke prati hamari be-ruhi ko bina kisi sharm ya lihaz ke poori tarah se sabke samne laakar rakh diya hai.
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.
Hum un logon se mohabbat karte hain jo narm-dili se dete hain, ya phir bade aaram se qubool kar lete hain.
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
Ek pacifist (shantiwaadi) ke paas sirf yahi rasta hota hai ki wo jung ka koi badal dhoondhe.
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
Kisi aise desh mein jahan aap kuch samajh nahi sakte aur na hi bol sakte hain, sabse mushkil baat yeh hoti hai ki aap chaahkar bhi khud ko waisa nahi rakh paate jaise aap asal mein hain.
What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
Kalaakar ka kaam yeh hai ki jab dukh aaye toh wo use sweekar kare. Uski grahan karne ki gehrai aur kshamta hi uski kala ka paimana hai; aur jab wo apne hi dukh se munh modta hai, toh wo apne hone ke mool niyamion ko hi jhuthlata hai aur har us cheez ke darwaze band kar leta hai jo use kabhi mahan bana sakti thi.
The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.
The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.
Asal mein, Christmas koi bahari tyohar nahi hai, balki yeh ghar ka wo hissa hai jise insaan apne dil mein basaye rakhta hai: kisi bachpan ki kahani ki tarah, iski sachyai iske baar-doohraaye jaane mein hai, taaki jab yeh aaye toh poori zindagi ki, aur khaas taur par bachpan ke sabse door ke dinon ki yaadon ko taaza kar de.
Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.
Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.
Hum insaano ka jo hissa dekh paate hain, wo bohot chhota hota hai: unke chehre aur roop, aawaz aur shabd.... inke pare, kisi vishal andhere mahadweep ki tarah, wo sab kuch chhupa hota hai jinhone unhe banaya hai.
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
... yeh ya toh sabko sabhy banane ka sawaal hai ya fir bilkul bhi sabhy na hone ka: patan hamesha se adhoori sabhyata se hi shuru hota hai.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
Dard, dar aur bhookh aisi cheezein hain jinki wajahon ka pehle se pata lagaya ja sakta hai aur unhe jaana ja sakta hai: lekin dukh wo qarz hai jo koi aur hamare liye chhod jaata hai.
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Irani (Persian) logon ka dimaag, unki rangin hast-likhiyon (illuminated manuscripts) ki tarah, nazariye ya perspective par kaam nahi karta: do hazaar saal purani baatein bhi, agar unhe thodi bohot jankari ho, toh unke liye parso ki hi tarah romanchak hoti hain.
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
Kranti (revolution) ke dono pakshon ke liye sabse zaroori cheez daya aur sahanubhuti hai, jo sabse hairan karne wali cheezon ko bhi mumkin bana deti hai. Apne padosi ko khud ki tarah samajhna hi kranti ka sabse mool mantr hai.
the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.
the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.
Shayad mata-pita hone ka sabse accha kaam yeh hai ki wo bachhon ko bina kisi dar ke pyaar karna sikhayein, taaki jab aage chalkar aisi koi bhavna aaye toh wo bina dare aage badh sakein; pyaar karne ki aadi aatma ko dabana hi saare dukhon ki jad hai aur jab iska daman kiya jata hai toh sirf sex ka hi nahi balki ishwar ka bhi apmaan hota hai. Kisi aam insaan ki aatma ki aalochana karna aur use doshi thehrana, sirf khokhi dharmikta ke chalte sookh jata hai.
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
Mujhe kabhi-kabhi lagta hai ki is duniya mein sirf do hi tarah ke log hote hain—ek jo ek jagah bas jaate hain aur doosre jo banjare hote hain—aur chahe wo kisi bhi zameen se taalluq rakhte hon, unke beech ek swabhavik khichav ya dushmani hoti hai.
There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.
There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.
Nishtha ya constancy, ek gun hone ke bajay, aksar insani jati ka sabse bada avgun ban jaati hai, jo aalas aur atmanirbharta ki beti hai, neend ki behan hai, aur lagbhag saari jungon aur atyacharon ki jad hai.
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
Oont (camel) upar se dekhne mein ek badsoorat jaanwar lagta hai. Uske kandhe kisi bore ki tarah be-dhangey se jhuke hote hain, uske chote aur moorkh se kaan aur unke peechhe bleached kiye huye ghoongharale baal ek sammanit guest house jaise lagte hain, kisi fike aur saaf-suthre pan ki tarah jo sharafat ke liye taiyar hota hai par kabhi pyaar ke liye nahi taiyar hota.
The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.
The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.
Tourist apni hi duniya mein gonge ki tarah safar karta hai aur mano poori duniya ke mahadweep ko dekhne ke liye apne hi chalte-firte darwaze par khada ho. Lekin agar aap in sab cheezon ko chhodkar ek aaram aur shant dimaag ke sath bahar nikalte hain, toh aapko pata nahi chalega ki aapke sath kya-kya ho sakta hai.
The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
... main un logon mein se ek banna chahta hoon jo hamesha ghar par hi milte hain, wo acche aur sukoon dene wale log jinhe sabhi pasand karte hain kyunki wo is bhaag-daud bhari duniya mein ek sthirta ka ehsaas karate hain.
... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.
... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.
Oont apne wahi dheere aur aanbaan wale andaz mein, sir ko ghamand se uncha karke apna wahi boring gol-chakkar wala kaam karta rehta hai, mano yeh koi aisi pavitra rasam ho jise aam log samajh na sakein; aur bina kisi shak ke wo bhi apne jeevanki is ubaaupan ko apni nek-niyati ke ehsaas se sahlata hai, bilkul uski tarah jo sirf dikhave ke niyam-dharam mante hain.
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
Mere pita apne dil ki saari bhavnaayein jo shabdon mein bayan nahi kar pate the, unke haathon mein hoti thi—koi bhi kutta, bacha ya ghoda unke haathon ki naram-dili ko turant pehchan leta tha.
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
Lekin lagbhag saari pareshaniyan galat samay par kaam karne ki wajah se hi hoti hain.
Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.
Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.
Doosri taraf, kisi aise vyakti ke sath safar karne ka ek alag hi fayda hota hai jiski chhavi goli khane ki bajay goli chalane wale ki ho: jaisa ki Keram ne bade aatm-santosht hokar kaha tha, bhale hi wo mujhe maar dete, par wo yeh jante the ki agar main uske sath hoon, toh baad mein unhe kafi pareshani uthani padegi.
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.
Pyaar se sirf zindagi ki keemat chuka kar hi bachha ja sakta hai; aur dukh ko kam karne ke liye insani aur ishwar ki us dhara se alag hone ka dard kisi bhi keemat par sahayak nahi ho sakta.
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.
Sabse mahan mythology ne apne devtaon ko teen hisson mein baata hai: banane wale, bachane wale aur mitane wale. Saaf-safai aur vyavastha (tidiness) seedhe taur par doosre varg mein aati hai, jo baaki dono ke bhayanak asar ko kam karti hai.
The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.
The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.
Kala ki ek kriti sthir hoti hai; aur iska mooly aur iski kamzori dono hi iske sthir hone mein hain; lekin ghaas ka ek tinka aur uske upar ke baadal hamare apne yatri parivar ka hissa hain.
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
Kisi na kisi roop mein, chahe hum isse waqif hon ya na hon, hum sabhi pracharadak (propagandists) ban chuke hain; kewal imandari hi humein sachai par kayam rakh sakti hai.
In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
Puri tarah se hosh mein nahi, par poori tarah behosh bhi nahi, jahan tak mujhe yaad hai, maine apne bhavishya ko ek shilpkar (sculptor) ki tarah apne sangmarmar se tarashne ka faisla kiya tha, aur isme bhawishya ki samajh aur anjaanepan ka wahi mel tha. Kalaakar ke dimaag mein jo cheez hoti hai wo apna rasta khud banati hai aur jab wo uske haathon ke jariye jaagti hai toh apna aakar le leti hai. Aur aisi hi zindagi hai.
not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
... rozmarra ki zindagi ki satah ke niche taazgi thartharati rehti hai, ek aisi khushi jo un sabhi ke liye hamesha bani rehti hai jo aadat ki dhool ke niche iske indradhanushi rangon ko dekh lete hain.
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
Shabd un logon ki zindagi se nichode gaye boondon ke siva kuch nahi hain jinhone unhe jiya hai.
words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
शपनी शैली में हर महानता की शुरुआत, मेरा मानना है, एक ऐसे आदर भाव से होती है जो इतना गहरा और भावुक हो कि एक ऐसी विनम्रता को जन्म दे, जो निर्जीव चीज़ों के सामने भी खुद को बड़ा न दिखाए; और इसी समर्पण भाव से सेवा की एक ऐसी इच्छा पैदा होती है जो वस्तु विशेष के प्रति पूरी तरह निस्वार्थ और सटीक होती है, चाहे वह कुछ भी हो।
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.
... ऐसी बहुत कम चीज़ें हैं जो इस दुनिया से हमारी विदाई को पूरी तरह आसान बना सकें, एक ऐसी दुनिया जिसे अपनी लंबी से लंबी ज़िंदगी में भी हम बहुत कम जान पाते हैं और जिसकी खूबसूरती में बेहिसाब विविधता है।
... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.
... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.
चीज़ों को जैसे हैं वैसे ही बनाए रखने की सोचना उन्हें अनजाने में बहकावे में छोड़ देना है, क्योंकि मौत के अलावा और कुछ भी दिल की धड़कन को नहीं रोक सकता और न ही ब्रह्मांड को उसकी निरंतर गति से डिगा सकता है।
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
हमारी बहुत कम उपलब्धियाँ इतनी गहरी होती हैं कि वे हमेशा के लिए सही साबित हों; और अगर ऐसा है भी, तो उनमें सुधार की, कहीं थोड़ा कसने की और कहीं ढीला करने की ज़रूरत होती है, बिल्कुल किसी पुराने कपड़े की तरह जिसे शरीर के हिसाब से ठीक करना पड़ता है।
Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.
Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.
इस भयंकर घटिया नक्शे को जिस किसी ने भी बनाया है, वह मज़ाक कर रहा था। बस अगले ही मोड़ पर, मेरे गधे जैसी बात है।
Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.
Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.
पारिवारिक जीवन में एक-दूसरे से दूरी या अलगाव बहुत काम की चीज़ है, और सही मात्रा में इसका इस्तेमाल करना किसी भी अन्य कला की तरह ही एक हुनर है।
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
मुझे लगता है कि बुढ़ापे की सबसे बुरी बात इसका अंत आ जाना नहीं है... बल्कि इसकी तैयारियों की ऊब और हार का बढ़ता हुआ सिलसिला है।
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
बिक्री की इस कला या भाषा का जन्म अदन के बगीचे में अंजीर के पत्तों के पहले फैशन के साथ ही हुआ होगा, इसमें कोई शक नहीं। इसके इर्द-गिर्द एक अजीब सी धारणा बन गई है कि अगर कोई चीज़ बेचनी है, तो सच से दूर रहना अनैतिक नहीं है। इसलिए विज्ञापन की कला यही है—झूठ और बार-बार दोहराने का मेल।
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
शब्द ही वे एकमात्र धमनियां हैं जिनके ज़रिए हमारा यह बेचारा इंसान शरीर विचारों को महसूस कर पाता है।
Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
अंग्रेज़ी में 'उचित' और 'अनुचित' (फेयर और अनफेयर) ऐसे सबसे प्रभावशाली शब्द हैं जिनका इस्तेमाल बहुत ही सावधानी से किया जाना चाहिए।
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
मुझे ऐसे हर इंसान पर शक होता है जो वैध सुखों को ठुकराने के लिए खुद से इतना संतुष्ट रहता है: हमारे पास अपनी निजी खुशियों के ऐसे कोई असीम भंडार नहीं हैं कि जब ब्रह्मांड अपनी कृपाएं बांटे, तो हम उन्हें ठुकरा दें।
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.
... मैं ऐसी किसी भी सभ्यता को किसी काम का नहीं मानता जो अपने नागरिकों को ऐसा कुछ खर्च करने के लिए प्रोत्साहित और सक्षम न बनाए—वह पैसा जो सरकारों द्वारा जबरन न वसूला गया हो, बल्कि अपनी मर्ज़ी से दिया गया हो ताकि कम से कम उन गलियों से बदहाली दूर रहे जिन पर वे रोज़ाना चलते हैं।
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
प्रतीक दिखने वाले पदार्थ से कहीं अधिक बड़ा होता है। ... अभागा है वह देश जिसके पास कोई प्रतीक नहीं हैं, या जो बहुत सावधानी के बिना उनके अर्थ चुनता है।
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
अरब की हमेशा से यह खासियत रही है कि वहां यात्री किसी ओहदे से नहीं, बल्कि सीधे एक इंसान के रूप में अपनी जगह बनाता है; वहां के लोगों का सीधापन, जो भावुकता या पाण्डित्य को बर्दाश्त नहीं करता, सरल और सच्चे गुणों को पसंद करता है।
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
मैं कई ऐसे प्यारे लोगों से मिली हूँ, और बहुत से ऐसे होते जो प्यारे होते अगर उनके मन में अंग्रेज़ों को लेकर कोई दबी हुई ग्रंथि न होती, और हर किसी का व्यवहार बड़ा खुशमिजाज और प्यारा है और मुझे ज़्यादातर अमरीकी आवाज़ें पसंद हैं। दूसरी ओर, मुझे नहीं लगता कि उनका कोई भगवान है और उनकी टोपियां डरावनी होती हैं। कुल मिलाकर मैं अरबों को ही ज़्यादा पसंद करती हूँ।
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.
... कुछेक कट्टरपंथियों को छोड़कर (जो सभी प्रेमियों की तरह भरोसे के काबिल नहीं होते) पानी का अनगिनत विस्तार नीले होने पर भी उबाऊ होता है: किसी छोटी नाव में बैठकर नहीं, जहाँ आप हवाओं, धाराओं और ज्वार-भाटे का हिस्सा होते हैं और आपको कभी-कभी पतवार थामने का मौका मिलता है; बल्कि उन जहाज़ों के डेक से जिन्हें शिपिंग कंपनियाँ अनजाने में जितना हो सके उपनगरीय जैसा बनाने की कोशिश करती हैं ताकि बाहर के उस विशाल समुद्र का झटका कम महसूस हो, और जहाँ अंदर की छुपी हुई बोरियत इतनी गहरी होती है कि क्षितिज पर धुएँ का एक हल्का सा छल्ला भी लोगों को ऐसे कतार में खड़ा कर देता है मानो कोई वाल्कीरी गुज़रने वाली हो।
... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.
... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.
सटीकता ही शैली का आधार है। शब्द हमारे विचारों के पहनावे हैं और वे बिल्कुल फिट होने चाहिए; और वे केवल अपने उच्चारण में ही नहीं, बल्कि अपने निहितार्थों, अपने क्रम और अपने ठहराव में भी सही बैठने चाहिए, बिल्कुल वैसे ही जैसे वास्तुकला में खाली जगहें उतनी ही महत्वपूर्ण होती हैं जितनी कि भरी हुई जगहें।
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.
हर शब्द अपने असल अर्थ से कहीं ज़्यादा बड़ी तस्वीर हमारे दिमाग में उभार देता है, और लेखक को उन अनकहे संबंधों के साथ-साथ कहे गए अर्थ से भी निपटना पड़ता है।
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
... प्रेम की भावना को कुचलना ही सारे दुखों की जड़ है और जब इसे दबाया जाता है तो न केवल कामुकता बल्कि खुद दिव्यता का भी अपमान होता है।
... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.
... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.
जो चीज़ें अपने आप में अच्छी होती हैं... जो अपनी शुरुआत की सच्चाई में पूरी तरह सही होती हैं, वे भी अगर बदल न सकें तो बेड़ियाँ बन जाती हैं।
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
जवानी अपनी दुनिया को आँखों से देखती है और बुढ़ापा अपनी दुनिया के पार देखता है; जवानी को उन समस्याओं से उलझना पड़ता है जिनके साफ और कठिन रूप उसके सामने होते हैं, जबकि बुढ़ापा, किस्मत अच्छी हो, तो एक ऐसा निजी आंतरिक तालमेल पा लेता है जो आमतौर पर किसी काम को करने के लिए उपयुक्त नहीं होता।
youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
रीतियाँ और परंपराएं सिक्कों की तरह होती हैं, जो हमारे आपसी रिश्तों के लेन-देन को आसान बनाती हैं।
Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
मुझे नैतिक उद्देश्यों वाले लोग बिल्कुल पसंद नहीं हैं। हर कोई मुझसे पूछता है कि मैं अरबी क्यों सीख रही हूँ, और जब मैं कहती हूँ कि मुझे बस यह पसंद है, तो वे हैरान और अविश्वासी नज़रों से देखते हैं।
I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
किसी इंसान की तरह, पहाड़ भी कई चीज़ों से मिलकर बना एक जीव है, जिसे अलग-अलग जगहों से कई नज़ारे देखने के बाद ही जाना जा सकता है, और अगर वह सचमुच में कोई पहाड़ है, तो इस प्यार भरे अध्ययन का फल वह अपनी शख्सियत को धीरे-धीरे उजागर करके और अपने महत्व को बढ़ाकर देता है।
Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.
Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.
मैं न्यूयॉर्क की रोमांचक खूबसूरती से उबर नहीं पा रही हूँ—पेंसिल जैसी इतनी ऊँची और दूर इमारतें कि आसमान का नीलापन उनके इर्द-गिर्द तैरता रहता है; यह अहसास कि टैक्सियों की सवारी और खरीदारी, इंसानी बिल्डरों द्वारा बनाई गई बनावटी चीज़ों के बीच नहीं, बल्कि प्राकृतिक कटाव से बनी गहरी घाटियों के बीच हो रही है।
I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
एक बार मेरी किताब छप जाने और मुझसे दूर हो जाने के बाद मुझे ऐसा महसूस होता है जैसे मैं कोई तलाकशुदा पत्नी बन गई हूँ, और मुझे इसके साथ फिर से करीबी रिश्ते में लाए जाने से नफरत है!
I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
अगर बदलते हुए पूर्वी संसार को देखने के लिए किसी को सिर्फ एक खिड़की दी जाए, तो मेरा मानना है कि उसका रुख सड़क की तरफ होना चाहिए।
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
हम जादू को कमतर आंकने वाले नहीं थे—जादू जो पेड़ के तने और छाल के बीच के रस की तरह जीवन को जोड़े रखता है। हम जानते हैं कि यह धर्म और कविता में उबाऊपन नहीं आने देता। यह मुमकिन है कि इसके बिना हम मर जाते।
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.
क्रांति इंसान की एक स्वाभाविक प्रवृत्ति है, और अगर वह समझदार है तो इसे धीरे-धीरे आगे बढ़ाएगा ताकि यह लगभग महसूस ही न हो—वरना यह झटके खाकर आगे बढ़ेगी और बेचैनी पैदा करेगी।
Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.
Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.
यही उत्कृष्टता है—किसी भी चीज़ को सिर्फ उसके अपने लिए और उसकी अपनी पूरी ईमानदारी के साथ अपनाना।
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
आपके असली प्रगतिवादी कभी निष्पक्ष नहीं होते: वे कभी भी पर्याप्त रूप से तटस्थ नहीं होते।
Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.
Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.
कला हो या जीवन, यह बुराई नहीं बल्कि अच्छाई की कमी है जो इतनी निराशा पैदा करती है।
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
कहा जाता है कि सामान्यीकरण खतरनाक होता है। वैसे, जीवन भी ऐसा ही है, और यह सामान्यीकरण पर ही टिका है — उस साहसी के पहले प्रयास से लेकर जिसने दूसरी बेरी खाने का जोखिम उठाया क्योंकि पहली से उसकी मौत नहीं हुई थी।
Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.
Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.
मृत्यु के साक्षात सामने कौन बुद्धिजीवी होने का साहस करता है?
Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
मुझे लगता है कि एक शांतिवादी के पास युद्ध का कोई विकल्प खोजने के अलावा और कोई रास्ता नहीं है: पहाड़ और समुद्र की यात्रा ही ऐसी दो चीजें हैं जिन्हें मैं जानता हूं। लेकिन वह कुछ ऐसा होना चाहिए जो खेल न लगे, बल्कि काफी गंभीर हो और उन गुणों को उभारने के लिए पर्याप्त खतरनाक हो जिन्हें अन्यथा कोई अवसर नहीं मिलता।
It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.
It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.
एक पेन, एक नोटबुक और समझदारी का थोड़ा सा दायरा किसी यात्रा को एक साधारण वार्षिक घटना से हमेशा के लिए जीवंत बना सकता है, जिसके सुख और दुख जब चाहें तब महसूस किए जा सकते हैं।
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.
खुशहाल रहने के लिए जीवन को किसी पवित्र अनुष्ठान की तरह होना चाहिए, और धर्म की यह एक असफलता है कि वह इसे रोजमर्रा के और सामान्य मानवीय जीवन के पवित्र कार्यों से अलग कर देता है।
Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.
Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.
केवल अनपेक्षित बातें ही कभी किसी सीमा शुल्क अधिकारी को सोचने पर मजबूर करती हैं।
It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
किसी अजनबी शहर में बिल्कुल अकेले जागना दुनिया के सबसे सुखद अनुभवों में से एक है। आप रोमांच से घिरे होते हैं।
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
प्रेम, टूटे हुए चीनी मिट्टी के बर्तन की तरह है, जिस पर रोया जाना चाहिए और जिसे दफना देना चाहिए, क्योंकि कोई चमत्कार ही इसे दोबारा जीवित कर सकता है: लेकिन इस दुनिया में ऐसा कौन है जिसने पागलपन के कुछ पों में शब्दों से उस चीज को वापस पाने की न सोची हो जिसे दोबारा नहीं पाया जा सकता?
Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?
Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?
जोखिम जिंदगी में नमक और चीनी की तरह है (यानी इसके बिना जिंदगी का स्वाद अधूरा है)।
Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
अच्छे दिनों को अंगूरों की तरह चुन लेना चाहिए, उन्हें पैरों से कुचलकर बोतलों में शराब की तरह भरकर बुढ़ापे के लिए रख लेना चाहिए ताकि आग के पास इत्मीनान से उनका लुत्फ उठाया जा सके। अगर मुसाफिर ने अच्छी शराब बनाई है, तो उसे अब और भटकने की जरूरत नहीं है; उसके गिलास में खुशियों के वे लाल पल जब चाहे चमक उठते हैं।
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
यह एक बहुत ही शानदार पल होता है, जब आप अपनी भटकन की मंजिल को देख लेते हैं, भले ही वह कितनी भी दूर क्यों न हो। जो चीज अब तक सिर्फ आपकी कल्पना में जिंदा थी, वह अचानक इस साकार दुनिया का हिस्सा बन जाती है। इससे कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता कि आपके और उस मंजिल के बीच कितने पहाड़, नदियाँ या तपते हुए धूल भरे रास्ते हैं; अब वह हमेशा के लिए आपकी हो गई है।
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
महसूस करना, सोचना और सीखना - हमेशा सीखते रहना: असल मायनों में जिंदा रहने और युवा होने का यही मतलब है।
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
मुझे ऐसे लोग सचमुच पसंद हैं जिन्होंने हर बात पर अपनी कोई पक्की राय नहीं बना रखी है, और जो हकीकत में अभी भी नई चीजें सीख रहे हैं।
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
कला का एक हिस्सा यह भी है कि खामोशी को भी आवाज दी जाए। पेंटिंग में जो चीजें छोड़ दी जाती हैं, संगीत में जो सुर रोक लिया जाता है, वास्तुकला में जो खाली जगह छोड़ी जाती है - ये सब उतने ही जरूरी और असरदार हैं जितना कि खुद कुछ कहना।
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
यदि आप समझदार हैं और यात्रा की कला को जानते हैं, तो आप खुद को अज्ञात की धारा में बहने देंगे और जो भी सामने आएगा उसे उसी भाव से स्वीकार करेंगे जैसे देवता उसे भेंट कर रहे हों।
You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.
You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.
महत्व पीछे दरवाजे के बंद होने की आवाज का नहीं, बल्कि आगे से बुला रहे बुलावा का होता है।
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
सबसे खतरनाक भ्रम - यह विश्वास कि कुछ न करने से चीजों को वैसे ही बनाए रखा जा सकता है।
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
कोई व्यक्ति तभी वास्तव में यात्रा कर सकता है जब वह खुद को पूरी तरह खुला छोड़ दे और हर जगह से मिलने वाले अनुभव को अपना ले, बिना इसके कि वह उसे अपने किसी आरामदायक निजी सांचे में ढालने की कोशिश करे। और मुझे लगता है कि यही यात्रा और पर्यटन के बीच का फर्क है।
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
सहिष्णुता उस भ्रम को कभी सहन नहीं कर सकती जो यह मानता हो कि बुराई खुद को भलाई में बदल सकती है।
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
यात्रा का सार फैला हुआ होता है। यह कभी ठीक उसी जगह पर नहीं होता जहाँ आप हैं, बल्कि हमेशा उससे आगे होता है: इसका प्रतीक क्षितिज है, और इसका आकर्षण हमेशा उस अनदेखी सीमा के पार ही छिपा होता है।
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.
यात्रा का असली फल शायद यह अहसास है कि आप लगभग हर जगह अपने घर जैसा महसूस करने लगते हैं।
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
जिंदगी का अनपेक्षित रूप, जो हर मोड़ पर इंतजार कर रहा होता है, समझदार महिलाओं को भी हैरान कर देता है (...) आखिर मोड़ों से पूरी तरह बचने का मतलब जिंदगी जीने से इनकार करना है।
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
मैंने सोचा कि अकेलापन इंसानी रूह की एक ऐसी गहरी जरूरत है जिसे हमारे नियमों में कभी भी उचित मान्यता नहीं दी जाती। इसे एक सजा या अनुशासन की तरह देखा जाता है, न कि उस जरूरी और सुखद हिस्से के रूप में जो आम जिंदगी का हिस्सा होना चाहिए। और इसी मान्यता की कमी के कारण हमारे आधे से ज्यादा घरेलू झगड़े पैदा होते हैं।
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
शिष्टता गणित में शून्य की तरह होती है। अपने आप में भले ही उसका कोई खास वजन न हो, लेकिन वह बाकी हर चीज के मूल्य को कई गुना बढ़ाने की क्षमता रखती है।
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
इंसान की इंसान पर हर जीत में हार का एक स्वाद जरूर छिपा होता है... अलग-अलग मानव समूहों में कोई बुनियादी फर्क नहीं है, ये ऐसे जीव हैं जिनकी हड्डियाँ, दिमाग और अंग एक जैसे हैं; और हम वहाँ जो भी नुकसान पहुँचाते हैं, वह एक तरह से खुद को अपंग बनाने जैसा है, मानो बाएं हाथ की उंगलियों को दाएं हाथ से काट दिया गया हो।
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.
हमारे हर काम में किसी पवित्र संस्कार जैसी संभावनाएँ छिपी होती हैं।
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
सीखने का शौक एक सुखद और सार्वभौमिक बंधन है क्योंकि इसका संबंध इस बात से है कि आप क्या हैं, न कि इस बात से कि आपके पास क्या है।
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
रेगिस्तान का एक आकर्षण यह भी है कि जीवन के तमाम तामझाम को हटाकर यह हमें उस पतले धागे से रू-ब-रू कराता है जिस पर हमारा मानवीय वजूद टिका हुआ है।
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
रेगिस्तान, पहाड़ों या समुद्र की असली पुकार उनकी खामोशी है—जो बेमतलब की बकबक के जाल से पूरी तरह आज़ाद होती है।
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
अपनी आत्मा का सौदा करके सहिष्णु बनने से बेहतर है कि आपमें किसी चीज़ के प्रति तीव्र जुनून हो।
It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.
It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.
कुल मिलाकर, बुढ़ापा उन लोगों पर ज़्यादा मेहरबान होता है जिनका किसी अमूर्त दुनिया—कला, दर्शन या ज्ञान—से वास्ता होता है। यह एक ऐसी दुनिया है जहाँ उम्र का एहसास ही नहीं होता और जहाँ युवा और वृद्ध एक शांत, सच्चे माहौल में मिल सकते हैं।
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
मैंने सोचा कि नौकरशाही कितनी अजीब चीज़ है: यहाँ हमेशा एक छोटी सोच वाला इंसान बड़े फैसलों को तौलता है—यह चपरासियों और दरबानों की दुनिया है। यह उन लोगों की मूर्खता है जो उन चीज़ों पर भी पूरा यकीन रखते हैं जिनकी उन्हें कोई जानकारी नहीं होती। जो दुनिया लोगों को अज्ञानी बनना सिखाए—आज हमारी दुनिया बिल्कुल ऐसी ही बन चुकी है।
The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.
The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.
दूसरों के साथ सहजता से रहना सीखने के लिए बुनियादी और साझा मूल्यों को समझना यात्रा से मिलने वाली सबसे बड़ी नेमत है।
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
समय वह समंदर है जिसमें इंसान जन्म लेता है, बड़ा होता है और अंत में विलीन हो जाता है।
Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
ज़्यादातर लोग किसी सफलता को हासिल करने के बाद, उसे ग्रामोफोन के पुराने रिकॉर्ड की तरह तब तक बार-बार दोहराते रहते हैं जब तक कि वह घिस न जाए। वे यह भूल जाते हैं कि बीता हुआ कल तो महज़ आने वाले कल को गढ़ने का एक कच्चा चिट्ठा है।
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
मुझे दूसरों की अच्छाइयों को तराशने के लिए हथौड़े की मार सहने वाला निहाई (लोहे का टुकड़ा) बनना कतई पसंद नहीं है।
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
हम अक्सर लोगों के प्यार को एक तयशुदा पैमाना मान लेते हैं, यह भूल जाते हैं कि यह तो समंदर के ज्वार-भाटे की तरह है—जो घटता-बढ़ता रहता है लेकिन अपनी तह में हमेशा वहीं मौजूद रहता है। मुझे लगता है कि इस बहाव को न समझ पाना ही आधी टूटी हुई दोस्ती की वजह बनता है।
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.
सफ़ाई-सुथरापन... ज़िंदगी को आसान और खुशनुमा बनाता है, इससे किसी का नुकसान नहीं होता और जो इसे अपनाता है उसका समय और झंझट दोनों बचते हैं; फिर इसके पीछे कोई तो गहरा राज़ छिपा होगा जिसकी वजह से सदियों से पीढ़ियाँ इसे अपनाने से कतराती आई हैं।
Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.
Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.
विज्ञापन की कला - झूठ और बार-बार दोहराने की जिद का मेल।
The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.