ببينيد Kent Nerburn در کتاب "Letters To My Son" چقدر زيبا، در مورد عشق و دوست داشتن صحبت مي کنه. (لينک از سلمان)

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عشق چيه ؟
It is a mystery why we fall in love.
It is a mystery how it happens.
It is a mystery when it comes.
It is a mystery why some love grows and it is a mystery why some love fails.
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اگه عاشق کسي شدين که عاشق شما نباشه :
If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to rest in the other person's heart.
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اگه عاشق کسي نباشند که عاشق شما باشه :
If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love her, feel honoured that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not cause pain. How you deal with love is how you deal with you, and all our hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways are different.
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اگه عشق دو طرفه داشتين :
If you fall in love with another, and she falls in love with you, and then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess blame. Let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will know in time.
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ريممبر ! عشق آمدني بود نه آموختني
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away.
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Remember this, and keep it to your heart. Love has its own time, its own seasons, and its own reasons for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. But if it choose to leave from your heart or from the heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do.
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Love always has been and always will be a mystery.
Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life.


If you keep your heart open, it will come again.
If you keep your heart open, it will come again
If you keep your heart open, it will come again

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و قسمتهاي ديگري از اين کتاب:

Being male is not enough; being a man is a right to be earned and an honor to be cherished

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom and others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made. and give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than how it is shared, and your life will have meaning, and your heart will have peace."

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اين هم دو تا از نظرات خواننده هاي اين کتاب زيبا:

My dad bought me 'Letters to my son' a few moths ago. I havent been able to put it down since. The lucid, beautiful and eloquent way Kent Nerburn writes is very special. I believe no son should be without this book. If one book can guide you through life and give insightful advice on how to live your life, then it is this one. I cannot praise it highly enough. The way he writes is almost as good as the content. Whenever I read even a page of this book, I feel happy content and full of hope. I strongly recommend that anybody who is interested in living a better life buys this book. You will not be dissapointed.
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I was fortunate to find the book Letters to My Son by Kent Nerburn. As a single mother of two young men I highly recommend this book. Both my guys will be getting a copy this year with a special note from me. For women this is a reminder of what we respect and admire in men. For Moms it is a compass to chart the path you help your boys manuever in what to us is sometimes a confusing road. Whether male of female, a good reminder of what is important in life.

با اين توصيفات فکر مي کنم خواندن اين کتاب شديدا لازم و مفيد باشه. قيمت 16 دلاريش هم زياد به نظر نمي رسه. اما چه طوري مي شه اين کتاب را در جزيره ايران گير آورد ؟