کرسپن، جب تمہاری شادی ہوئی تھی، اس نے کہا، میرا دل ٹوٹ گیا تھا۔ میں اس سے انکار نہیں کروں گی، لیکن میں نے زندگی کو کسی ایسی بے رنگ اور بے معنی حالت میں نہیں جانے دیا جہاں وقت رک سا جاتا، بشرطیکہ تم کسی طرح لوٹ کر نہ آتے۔ میں نے اپنے دل کے ٹکرے سمیٹے اور جینا جاری رکھا۔ اب میں وہ عورت نہیں رہی جب میں تم سے محبت کرتی تھی اور تم سے شادی کی امید لگائے بیٹھی تھی، اور نہ ہی میں وہ عورت ہوں جب مجھے تمہاری شادی کی خبر ملی تھی۔ پچھلے پانچ سالوں میں، میں نے خود کو ڈھالا ہے اور اب میں ایک بالکل الگ انسان بن چکی ہوں۔ مجھے یہ نئی میں پسند ہے، اور میں اپنی اس زندگی کو آگے بڑھانا چاہتی ہوں۔
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.
میری دنیا میں ہر چیز بناوٹی ہے، کانسٹنٹائن، یہاں تک کہ میں خود، بالخصوص میں خود۔ اس نے مجھے ایک ڈچس بننا سکھایا، ایک ناقابلِ تسخیر قلعہ بننا سکھایا، اپنے دل کا نگہبان بننا سکھایا۔ لیکن اس نے یہ بھی تسلیم کیا کہ وہ مجھے یہ نہیں سکھا سکتا کہ اس قلعے میں نقب کب اور کیسے لگائی جائے، یا اپنے دل کے تالے کو کیسے کھولا جائے۔ اس نے کہا تھا کہ یہ سب بس خود بخود ہو جائے گا، بلکہ اس نے وعدہ کیا تھا کہ ایسا ہوگا۔ لیکن محبت مجھے کیسے تلاش کرے گی، یہ مانتے ہوئے بھی کہ وہ مجھے ڈھونڈ رہی ہے؟
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?
ہزاروں نقابوں کے پیچھے، سکون کے ایک غلاف میں ہمیشہ اپنے اصل، قیمتی وجود کو چھپائے رکھنا۔ زندگی خود ایک راز بن کر رہ گئی تھی۔
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
اور اس لمحے اسے احساس ہوا کہ محبت کبھی نہیں مرے گی، کہ وہ کبھی مکمل طور پر ماند نہیں پڑے گی۔ ہو سکتا ہے ایک ایسا وقت آئے جب وہ کسی اور سے ملے اور شادی کر لے، شاید وہ کسی حد تک خوش بھی ہو جائے۔ لیکن اس کے دل میں ہمیشہ ایک گہرا اور قیمتی کونہ رہے گا جو صرف اس کی پہلی سچی محبت کے لیے مخصوص ہوگا۔
And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.
And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.
اور ظاہر ہے کہ لفظ "محبت" کے کئی معنی ہوتے ہیں، بالکل اسی طرح جیسے ہماری اس جیتی جاتی، سانس لیتی زبان کے بہت سے دوسرے الفاظ کے ہوتے ہیں۔
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
اور اسے اس بات کا شدید احساس تھا کہ وہ زندہ ہے۔ محض سانس لیتی اور جیتی ہوئی نہیں، بلکہ... واقعی زندہ ہے۔
And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
اور پھر بھی دن اور رات دھندلے پن میں، شام اور صبح کے وقت بڑی بے قراری سے آپس میں ملتے ہیں،" اس نے اپنی آواز دھیمی کرتے ہوئے، آنکھیں باریک کیں اور اپنا سر اس کے چہرے کی طرف ایک انچ کا چوتھا حصہ مزید آگے بڑھاتے ہوئے کہا، "اور ان کا یہ ملاپ کبھی کبھی دیکھنے والے کو چوبیس گھنٹوں کے سب سے جادوئی لمحات سے نوازتا ہے۔ سورج طلوع ہونے یا غروب ہونے کا منظر روشنی کی چمک سے دمک اٹھتا ہے اور دیکھنے والے کی روح میں تمام تر جذبے اور تمنائیں بیدار کر دیتا ہے۔
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
سورج طلوع ہونے یا غروب ہونے کا منظر روشنی کی چمک سے دمک اٹھتا ہے اور دیکھنے والے کی روح میں تمام تر جذبے اور تمنائیں بیدار کر دیتے ہیں۔
A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
سیاہ رنگ تمام رنگوں کی غیر موجودگی ہے، جبکہ سفید رنگ تمام رنگوں کی موجودگی ہے۔ میرا خیال ہے کہ زندگی کو ان دونوں میں سے کوئی ایک ہونا چاہیے۔ مجموعی طور پر، مجھے لگتا ہے کہ میں رنگوں کے غائب ہونے کے بجائے رنگوں کو ہی ترجیح دوں گی۔ لیکن پھر سیاہ رنگ بھی تو رنگوں میں گہرائی اور نکھار پیدا کرتا ہے۔ شاید رنگوں کے مکمل امتزاج کے لیے سرمئی رنگ کے کچھ سائے بھی ضروری ہوتے ہیں، یہاں تک کہ گہرا سیاہ رنگ بھی۔ ارے، یہ تو ایک گہرا فلسفیانہ سوال ہے! کیا زندگی کے لیے سیاہ رنگ کا ہونا ضروری ہے، یہاں تک کہ ایک خوشحال زندگی کے لیے بھی؟ کیا ہم کبھی خوش رہ سکتے اگر ہم نے زندگی میں کم از کم کبھی کبھار دکھ یا مصیبت کا سامنا نہ کیا ہوتا؟
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?
لیکن ماں اور بیٹے کا رشتہ برابر کا رشتہ نہیں ہوتا، ہے نا؟ تم دونوں ایک دوسرے کے بغیر اکیلے ہو، بالکل جیسے وہ صرف تمہارے ساتھ تنہا ہے۔
But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
لیکن اگر کسی کے پاس وہ سب کچھ ہو جو اسے چاہیے یا جس کی وہ آرزو کر سکتا ہے، تو پھر خواب دیکھنے کے لیے کیا باقی بچ جاتا ہے؟
But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
لیکن مایوسی کے اندھیروں میں ڈوبا ہوا انسان ہی موسمِ سرما کے بعد آنے والی اس بہار کو دیکھنے سے غافل رہتا ہے جو لازمی طور پر اپنے ساتھ رنگ، زندگی اور امید واپس لے کر آتی ہے۔
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.
مگر وہ سوچتی تھی کہ والدین وہ کمالِ بلندی پر فائز نہیں ہوتے جیسا کہ ان کے بچے انہیں سمجھتے ہیں یا ان سے توقع کرتے ہیں۔ وہ بھی عام انسان ہوتے ہیں جو عموماً اپنی طرف سے پوری کوشش کرتے ہیں لیکن اکثر غلط فیصلے کر بیٹھتے ہیں۔
But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.
But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.
لیکن اصل بات یہ ہے کہ تم دیکھو، چاہے دو انسان کتنے ہی قریب کیوں نہ ہو جائیں، وہ کبھی بھی ایک جسم و جاں نہیں بن سکتے۔ اور اگر ایسا ممکن بھی ہوتا تو یہ کوئی اچھی بات نہ ہوتی۔ ذرا سوچو، جب ان میں سے ایک مر جاتا تو کیا ہوتا؟ دوسرا ادھورا انسان بن کر رہ جاتا، اور یہ کتنی ہولناک بات ہوتی! ہم سب کو ایک مکمل انسان بننا چاہیے اور اسی لیے ہم میں سے ہر ایک کو اپنے آپ اور اپنے جذبات کے ساتھ اکیلے رہنے کے لیے تھوڑی سی پرائیویسی کی ضرورت ہوتی ہے۔
But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.
But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.
کیا ہر انسان زندگی میں باقاعدہ وقفوں کے بعد ہولناک غلطیاں کرتا ہے اور پھر عمر بھر ان پر پچھتاتا رہتا ہے؟ کیا ہر انسان کی زندگی جرم و بے گناہی، نفرت و محبت، فکر و بے پرواہی اور ایسے ہی لاتعداد متضاد جذبات کے الجھے ہوئے اور گڈمڈ آمیزے سے بھری ہوتی ہے؟ یا پھر زیادہ تر لوگ صرف ایک ہی طرح کے ہوتے ہیں - اچھے یا برے، خوش مزاج یا چਿڑچڑے، سخی یا کنجوس، اور اسی طرح کے دیگر وصف؟
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.
کیا اسے کبھی اپنے بچپن کے خوابوں میں سے کسی کی یاد سستاتی تھی؟ مگر زندگی تو خوابوں کے ایک سلسلے کا نام ہے، جن میں سے چند ایک پورے ہوتے ہیں، زیادہ تر وقت گزرنے کے ساتھ پیچھے چھوٹ جاتے ہیں، اور ایک آدھ عمر بھر کے لیے باقی رہ جاتا ہے۔ شاید اصل بات یہ جاننا ہے کہ کسی خواب کو کب چھوڑنا ہے، اور یہی چیز زندگی میں کامیاب لوگوں کو ان دکھی، تلخ مزاج انسانوں سے الگ کرتی ہے جو زندگی کے پہلے بڑے صدمے سے کبھی آگے نہیں بڑھ پاتے، یا ان ہوائی قلعے بنانے والوں سے جو کبھی حقیقی معنوں میں زندگی جیتے ہی نہیں۔
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.
دوستوں کو بھی تنہائی کے لیے ذاتی جگہ کی ضرورت ہوتی ہے، کم از کم ان کی روح کی گہرائیوں میں، جہاں کسی اور کو داخل ہونے کی اجازت نہ ہو۔
Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
زندگی کا ہر لمحہ ایک فیصلہ کن لمحہ ہوتا ہے، اور ہر لمحہ ہمیں ناقابلِ مراجعت طور پر ہماری باقی زندگی کی سمت موڑ دیتا ہے۔
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.
ہر انسان ایک گلاب کی طرح ہے لیکن محض ایک پھول سے کہیں زیادہ پیچیدہ۔ ہر انسان بے شمار تہوں والی پتیوں سے بنا ہے، اور ہر ایک کے دل کی گہرائی میں کوئی ایسی چیز ہے جو ناقابلِ بیان حد تک قیمتی ہے۔ کوئی بھی سطحی نہیں ہوتا، حقیقت میں کوئی بھی نہیں۔
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.
خوف ایک طاقتور بلا ہے، اگر اسے اپنے اوپر غلبہ پانے دیا جائے۔
Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
کیا تم نے کبھی غور کیا ہے، اس نے اس سے پوچھا، کہ ہم اپنی زندگی کا زیادہ تر حصہ ماضی میں اور باقی ماندہ وقت مستقبل میں گزارتے ہیں؟ کیا تم نے کبھی اس بات پر دھیان دیا ہے کہ حال کا لمحہ کتنی خاموشی سے، بغیر کسی دھیان کے ہمارے ہاتھوں سے نکل جاتا ہے؟
Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
اس نے نیلے آسمان کی طرف دیکھا اور جان گیا کہ جنت—کم از کم اس زندگی میں—کوئی ایسا وقت یا جگہ نہیں جسے مٹھی میں بھینچ کر اپنی ملکیت بنا لیا جائے۔ یہ تو بس اڑتے اڑتے چند لمحات کے لیے آتی ہے اور پھر چلی جاتی ہے، پیچھے چھوڑ جاتی ہے ایک اداسی، ایک تڑپ اور آنکھوں میں آئے ہوئے آنسو۔ بالکل آنسوؤں کے دھارے پر۔ اور ساتھ ہی شدید خوف۔
He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.
He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.
اس کی خواہش تھی کہ تاریخ کے کسی موڑ پر کسی کو یہ خیال آ گیا ہوتا کہ اس لفظ اور اس سے جڑے تمام الفاظ کو انگریزی زبان سے مٹا دیا جائے — خوش، زیادہ خوش، سب سے خوش، خوشی۔ آخر ان الفاظ کا اصل مطلب ہے کیا؟ کیوں نہ صرف 'مسرت' کا لفظ استعمال کیا جائے، جو کہ کہیں زیادہ... بھلا، خوشگوار ہے۔
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.
تم دیکھو، میں آزاد ہوں، اس نے کہا، محبت کرنے کے لیے یا محبت سے باز رہنے کے لیے۔ میرے لیے اب محبت اور انحصار کوئی ایک چیز نہیں رہی۔ میں محبت کرنے کے لیے آزاد ہوں۔ اسی لیے میں تم سے محبت کرتی ہوں اور اسی انداز میں کرتی ہوں۔ اگر تم یہاں اس لیے آئے ہو کٹ، کہ تمہیں لگتا ہے کہ تم پر میرا کوئی قرض ہے، کیونکہ تمہارا مان ہے کہ میرے تحفظ کے بغیر میں بکھر جاؤں گی، تو میری دعاؤں کے ساتھ واپس چلے جاؤ اور کسی اور کے ساتھ اپنی خوشیاں ڈھونڈ لو۔ "میں تم سے محبت کرتا ہوں،" اس نے پھر کہا۔
I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again.
I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again.
میں نہیں جانتی کہ تنہائی کیا ہوتی ہے، اس نے کہا۔ اگر اس کا مطلب لفظی معنوں میں اکیلا ہونا نہیں ہے، تو کیا یہ اکیلے رہنے کا، اپنے آپ کے ساتھ تنہا رہنے کا خوف ہے؟ مجھے ایسا کوئی خوف محسوس نہیں ہوتا۔ مجھے اکیلا رہنا پسند ہے۔ "تو پھر تمہیں کس چیز سے ڈر لگتا ہے؟" اس نے پوچھا۔ اس نے سر اٹھا کر ایک لمحے کے لیے اس کی طرف دیکھا اور مسکرائی؛ ایک نازک سی مسکان جو الفاظ سے پہلے ہی سب ਕੁਝ کہہ رہی تھی: "یہ کہ میں کبھی خود کو دوبارہ نہ ڈھونڈ پاؤں۔
I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.
I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.
وہ بولی, میں صرف ان لوگوں کے رویے سے ہرٹ ہو سکتی ہوں جن کی میں عزت کرتی ہوں۔
I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.
I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.
میں تم سے التجا کرتی ہوں کہ میری خودداری کا بھی کچھ لحاظ کرو۔ ایک ملین سال؟ میں تمہیں یقین دلاتی ہوں کہ پہلے ہزار سال کے بعد ہی میں پوچھنا بند کر دوں گی۔
I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
این، میں تقدیر پر یقین رکھتی ہوں—اس اندھی تقدیر پر نہیں جو انسان کو انتخاب کی کوئی آزادی نہیں دیتی، بلکہ اس تقدیر پر جو ہم میں سے ہر ایک کی زندگی کا ایک نقشہ بناتی ہے اور ہمیں بہت سے انتخاب دیتی ہے، جن کے ذریعے ہم اس نقشے کو پا کر خوش رہ سکتے ہیں۔
I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.
I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.
مجھے ایسی عظمت پسند نہیں جس کی کوئی بنیاد نہ ہو۔
I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
यदि आपको हमेशा से अपनी बहन के पागलपन की ओर झुकाव का शक रहा है, तो आपके इन सबसे बुरे डर की पुष्टि करने में मुझे खुशी होगी।
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
आप तो जानते ही हैं, मैं हमेशा से जीवन का एक दर्शक रहा हूँ, कभी उसका हिस्सा नहीं बना। कभी नहीं। लेकिन अब मैं हूँ। आज मैं हूँ, और मैं पूरी तरह अवाक और बेहद खुश हूँ। यह वही रोमांच है जिसकी मैंने कामना की थी, वह रोमांच जिसे मैं जी रहा हूँ, और इसके लिए मैं आपका हमेशा आभारी रहूँगा।
I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.
I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.
मैंने कहीं पढ़ा है कि हम अक्सर अपनी पूरी जिंदगी उस चीज़ की तलाश में बिता देते हैं जो हमारे पास पहले से ही होती है।
I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
मैं जानता हूँ कि यह कहना थोड़ा सा घिसा-पिटा लग सकता है कि प्यार हर मुमकिन चीज़ को संभव बना देता है, लेकिन मेरा मानना है कि यह सच है। यह कोई ऐसी जादुई छड़ी नहीं है जिसे ज़िंदगी पर घुमाकर सब कुछ मीठा, प्यारा और परेशानियों से मुक्त किया जा सके, बल्कि यह हमें मुश्किलों से लड़ने और जीतने की ऊर्जा ज़रूर दे सकता है।
I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.
I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.
मैं इस बात से सहमी हुई हूँ कि मैं उसे कभी अपने दिमाग से निकाल नहीं पाऊँगी। मैं उससे प्यार नहीं करती, लेकिन मुझे डर है कि वह मेरे लिए किसी और से कभी प्यार करना नामुमकिन बना देगा।
I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.
I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.
मैं इसके विपरीत मानना पसंद करती हूँ—कि अंधकार के केंद्र में हमेशा एक ऐसी खूबसूरती होती है जिसे नष्ट नहीं किया जा सकता।
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
लोगों को नायकों और खलनायकों में बाँट देना और उनसे उनकी तय की हुई भूमिका निभाने की उम्मीद करना कितना आसान और आरामदायक हुआ करता था।
It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
मॉर्गन ने पाया कि यह कितनी अजीब बात थी कि जब उम्मीद की कोई ठोस वजह नहीं होती थी, तब भी दिल उम्मीद का दामन थामे रहता था। और यह कि ज़िंदगी कैसे आगे बढ़ती जाती है।
It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.
It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.
उसने कहा, "काश, मुझे अठारह साल की उम्र में वो बात पता होती जो आज मुझे पता है—कि कुछ चीज़ों पर कभी समझौता नहीं किया जाता।"
I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
उसने कहा, "मैं तुम्हारी वजह से बिल्कुल जलकर खाक हो जाऊँगी," और जब उसकी आँखें आंसुओं से भर आईं, तो उसने घबराकर अपनी पलकें झपकाईं। "तुम मेरी सारी ऊर्जा और सारा आनंद चूस लोगे। तुम मेरे भीतर के जीवन के सारे उत्साह की आग को बुझा दोगे।" उसने कहा, "मुझे उस आग को भड़काने और तुम्हारी खुशी को संवारने का एक मौका तो दो।"
I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.
I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.
उसने महसूस किया कि ज़िंदगी अक्सर दर्द से बचने की एक जिद्दी और लगातार कोशिश बन जाती है—चाहे वह अपना दर्द हो या दूसरों का। लेकिन कभी-कभी दर्द को स्वीकार करना पड़ता है, यहाँ तक कि उसे छूना भी पड़ता है ताकि इंसान उसके भीतर उतर सके, उससे पार पा सके और उसे पीछे छोड़ सके। वर्ना इंसान उस दर्द से तबाह हो जाता है।
Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.
Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.
प्यार को तर्कसंगत होने की ज़रूरत नहीं होती। इसे योग्य होने की ज़रूरत नहीं होती। इसे कमाना नहीं पड़ता। इसे रिझाने की ज़रूरत नहीं होती। यह बस यूँ ही होता है।
Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.
Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.
"तो क्या प्यार हमेशा के लिए नहीं टिकता?" उसने सुबह-सुबह मुझसे यही सवाल पूछा। "नहीं, यह नहीं टिकता—वह प्यार बिल्कुल नहीं टिकता जिसके साथ धोखा हुआ हो। इंसान को तब एहसास होता है कि उसने किसी मरीचिका से प्यार किया था, किसी ऐसे व्यक्ति से जो वास्तव में कभी था ही नहीं। इसका मतलब यह नहीं कि प्यार तुरंत या जल्दी ही मर जाता है, तब भी नहीं। लेकिन वह मर जाता है और उसे दोबारा ज़िंदा नहीं किया जा सकता।"
Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.
Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.
मैंने पाया है कि प्यार कोई फैसला नहीं सुनाता, कोई परख नहीं करता। वह बस जैसा है, वैसा ही रहता है।
Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.
Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.
मेरी खुशी मेरे अपने भीतर से आनी चाहिए, वरना यह इतनी कमज़ोर चीज़ होगी कि मेरे किसी काम नहीं आएगी और मेरे किसी भी अपने के लिए बहुत बड़ा बोझ बन जाएगी।
My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.
My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.
कोई भी चीज़ हमेशा के लिए परफ़ेक्ट नहीं होती। लेकिन कुछ बेहतरीन पल होते हैं और हमारे पास यह चाहत होती है कि हम ऐसी चीज़ें चुनें जो हमें और अधिक बेहतरीन पल दे सकें।
Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
अब मुझे अपने किए गए चुनाव के परिणामों के साथ जीना होगा। और मैं इसे गलत चुनाव नहीं कहूँगा। ऐसा करना मूर्खतापूर्ण और बेकार होगा। उस चुनाव ने मुझे उन सभी चीज़ों तक पहुँचाया है जो तब से लेकर अब तक हुईं, जिसमें यह पल भी शामिल है, और आज, कल या अगले हफ्ते जो चुनाव मैं करूँगा, वे मुझे मेरे जीवन के अगले और उससे अगले वर्तमान पलों तक ले जाएँगे। मिस ज्वेल, यह सब एक यात्रा है। मैं यह समझ गया हूँ कि जीवन वास्तव में यही है—एक यात्रा, और हमेशा सही या गलत का फैसला किए बिना अगला कदम उठाने की हिम्मत और ऊर्जा रखना।
Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.
Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.
कभी-कभी हम सब सही इरादों के साथ गलत काम कर बैठते हैं। केवल समय ही यह साबित कर सकता है कि हम सही थे या गलत। अतीत तो अतीत है। अब इसे कोई नहीं बदल सकता, और वैसे भी यह कौन कह सकता है कि वह सब पूरी तरह गलत था?
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
एक दिन तुम्हें पता चल जाएगा कि प्यार हमेशा तुम्हें धोखा नहीं देता।
One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
शायद वह बस गलत जगह पर प्यार की तलाश कर रही थी। सभी सुरक्षित जगहों पर। क्या हो अगर प्यार बिल्कुल भी सुरक्षित न हो?
Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?
Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?
उसे कोई पछतावा नहीं था। और अगर यह शराब थी जो उससे ऐसा कहलवा रही थी, तो कल वह शराब से भी यही बात कहेगी। उसे कोई पछतावा नहीं था।
She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.
She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.
कभी-कभी बच्चे यह नहीं समझ पाते कि उनकी सुरक्षा कितने कमज़ोर धागे पर टिकी है। शायद यह अच्छा ही है कि वे नहीं समझते—उनमें से ज्यादातर बच्चे उस धागे के टूटने से पहले ही बड़े हो जाते हैं।
Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.
Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.
कभी-कभी कल्पना भी इंसान का साथ छोड़ देती है।
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
कभी-कभी ऐसा लगता है कि सिर्फ प्यार ही काफी नहीं है, है ना?
Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?
Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?
कभी-कभी 'वर्तमान' ही काफी होता है। कभी-कभी वही सब कुछ होता है।
Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
बेकार की व्यस्तताओं को छोड़ो और सपने देखो। अपनी कल्पना का इस्तेमाल करो। अज्ञात की गहराइयों में उतरो और सपने देखो कि कैसे तुम अपने अनुभवों को, अपने मन को, अपनी आत्मा को और अपनी इस दुनिया को बेहतर बना सकते हो।
Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.
Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.
अचानक, और पहली बार, वह अपने ही जीवन के केंद्र में था, उसे जी रहा था और उससे प्यार कर रहा था।
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
आँसू बहाने की मेहनत के लायक कभी नहीं होते।
Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
बुरी बात यह है कि ज़िंदगी चलती रहती है। अच्छी बात यह है कि दर्द चला जाता है।
The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
जिसे हम प्यार करते हैं वे अक्सर उतने कमज़ोर नहीं होते जितना हम उन्हें समझते हैं। शायद प्यार की फितरत ही ऐसी होती है कि वह अपने प्रिय को तकलीफ में देखने के बजाय सारा दर्द खुद सह लेना चाहता है। लेकिन कभी-कभी खालीपन से बेहतर दर्द होता है। किट, मैं बहुत खाली रही हूँ। अपनी पूरी ज़िंदगी। खालीपन से भरी हुई। यह कितना अजीब विरोधाभास है, है ना—खालीपन से भरा होना?
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?
चीजों का असली मतलब बहुत गहराई में छिपा होता है और वह हमेशा सुंदर होता है, क्योंकि उसका सीधा संबंध प्रेम से होता है।
The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
उनके शादी न करने के पीछे कोई तो वजह रही होगी। दोनों ही इस बात पर अड़े हुए थे। आख़िर वह क्या वजह थी?
There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?
There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?
दौड़ने के लिए कोई सुखद अंत नहीं होता। खुशी पाने के लिए हमें मेहनत करनी पड़ती है।
There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
उसने कहा, "क्या अतीत के किसी ऐसे हिस्से से बुरा कुछ हो सकता है जिसका सामना पूरी तरह न किया गया हो? इंसान खुद को यह यकीन दिला सकता है कि वह सब सुरक्षित रूप से अतीत में दफ़्न और भुला दिया गया है, लेकिन खुद को यह दिलासा देना ही इस बात का सबूत है कि वह भूला नहीं गया है।"
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
"हमेशा के लिए खुशहाल हो जाने" (हैपिली-एवर-आफ्टर) के विचार से कहीं अधिक अनंत रूप से बेहतर कुछ है, और वह है—खुशी। खुशी कोई जड़ नहीं बल्कि एक जीवंत, गतिशील चीज़ है, ईव, और इसके लिए हमें अपनी पूरी ज़िंदगी के हर पल मेहनत करनी पड़ती है। यह हमेशा के लिए खुशहाल हो जाने के उस मूर्खतापूर्ण और स्थिर विचार से कहीं अधिक रोमांचक संभावना है। क्या तुम इससे सहमत नहीं हो?" - एइडेन बेडविन
There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn
There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn
अपनों की तकलीफ अक्सर अपनी तकलीफ से ज़्यादा बुरी लगती है क्योंकि तब इंसान खुद को बेहद लाचार महसूस करता है।
The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.
The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.
अकेलेपन की सबसे बुरी बात यह है कि यह इंसान को खुद से रूबरू करा देता है।
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.
इस बार उसका दिल नहीं टूटेगा, भले ही उसे लंबे समय तक, शायद ज़िंदगी भर बहुत दर्द सहना पड़े। लेकिन उसका दिल नहीं टूटेगा। उसमें अकेले ही आगे बढ़ने की हिम्मत है।
This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.
This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.
क्या यादें हमेशा किसी वरदान की तरह होती हैं, या कभी-कभी एक बोझ भी बन जाती हैं?
Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
लोग ऐसा क्यों मान लेते हैं कि खूबसूरत लोगों को खुश रहने के लिए अपनी खूबसूरती के अलावा और किसी चीज़ की ज़रूरत नहीं होती? कि उस खूबसूरती के पीछे बस एक खाली और संवेदनहीन खोल के अलावा कुछ नहीं है?
Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?
Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?
मैं खुशी से क्यों भागना चाहती हूँ?
Why do I want to run from happiness?
Why do I want to run from happiness?
तुम्हारा यह अपराधबोध बना रहेगा। यह हमेशा तुम्हारा हिस्सा रहेगा। लेकिन इसे बाँटना, और लोगों को फिर भी तुमसे प्यार करने का मौका देना, तुम्हारे लिए बहुत अच्छा साबित होगा। अगर रहस्यों को बाहर न निकाला जाए, तो वे अंदर ही अंदर नासूर बन जाते हैं और एक असह्य बोझ बन जाते हैं।
Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.
Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.