Wisdom Quote by Chaim Tal — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A foreign land is a desert”

“The past teaches but never waits.”

“The past cannot be corrected.”

“Everyone has their own fate.”

“The world is patient. But it is not kind.”

“Your life is a mirror, reflecting your light.”

“Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.”

“I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues...”

“Many spend their lives polishing glasses and setting the table, but only a few pour the drink, and even fewer truly taste life’s real gratification.”

“Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.”

“لقد استحوذت علي آن ذاك فكرة مهيمنة: فلأول مرة في حياتي أرى الحقيقة كما يتغنى بها الكثير من الشعراء، وكما ينادي بها الكثير من المفكرين على أنها الحكمة العظمى: الحقيقة هي أن الحب هو الهدف الغائي والأسمى الذي يمكن أن يطمح إليه الإنسان. ثم أدركت معنى السر الأعظم الذي ينبغي أن يفصح عنه الشعر الإنساني والفكر لإنساني والإيمان الصادق: أن خلاص الإنسان هو من خلال الحب وفي الحب.”

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. Today, wrapped in the complacent armor of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one lightly and are soon forgotten, but then - how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.”