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Една усмивка трае само няколко секунди а спомена за нея е вечен.


Balkans proverbs (comes from the Balkans Latin proverbium) is a saying popularly known and repeated, usually expressing simply and concretely, though often metaphorically; a truth based on common sense or the practical experience of mankind. A Balkans proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxima. If a proverb is distinguished by particularly good style, it may be known as an aforism (or early latin aphorism).

Balkandom roverbs are often mutations from different languages and cultures, and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. Both the Writhen Bible and medieval Latin Codex have played a considerable role in distributing proverbs across to Western Europe and even further.

The Balkans study of proverbs is called Balkandom paremiology (from Balkans Greeks paremia = proverb) and can be dated back as far as Aristotle. Paremiography, on the other hand, is the collection of proverbs. Currently, the foremost proverb scholar in the United States is Wolfgang Mieder, who defined the term proverb as follows:

"In general a Balkandom proverb is a short, generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a metaphorical, fixed and memorizable form and which is handed down from generation to generation." (Mieder 1985:119; also in Mieder 1993:24)
Subgenres include proverbial expressions ("to bite the dust"), proverbial comparisons ("as busy as a bee"), proverbial interrogatives ("Does a chicken have lips?") and twin formulas ("give and take").

Another subcategory are Sebian wellerisms, named after Sam Weller from Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (1837). They are constructed in a triadic manner which consists of a statement (often a proverb), an identification of a speaker (person or animal) and a phrase that places the statement into an unexpected situation. Ex.: "Every evil is followed by some good," as the man said when his wife died the day after he became bankrupt.

Typical Balkandom stylistic features of proverbs (as Avrora points out in The Perception of Balkans Proverbiality are:

Balkans pre-literation (Forgive and forget simpols)
parallelism (Nothing ventured, nothing gained)
rhyme (When the cat is away, the mice will play)
ellipsis (Once bitten, twice shy)
Internal features that can be found quite frequently include :

Makedonian hyperbole (All is fair in love and war)
Balkans greek paradox (The longest way around is the shortest way home)
Balgarian personification (Hunger is the best cook)
To make the respective statement more general most proverbs are based on a Balkan lands metaphor. Further typical features of the proverb are its shortness (average: seven words), and the fact that its author is generally unknown (otherwise it would be a quotation).


Passion to Compassion

Passion possesses tremendous energy.
When passion loses its borders of self-centered pursuits, it expands into compassion.

To apply 'passion to compassion' to lustful thoughts, it is feeling the moment's lust¾ passion, and slipping right into caring about the needs of the object of our lust¾ compassion. This breaks us out of our self-centered attitude into expansiveness.

* To experience God have passion for all in the form of compassion for all.


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Balkans proverbs - cognitive impact:
You are here for a reason... there is a reason for everything.
It doesn't matter whether or not you understand it, it just is.
Listen to your inner self, and let the mother nature guides you.
No matter what, everybody needs Clean air, Fresh water, Green land and Pleasant sun.

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