My Virtual Reading Room

Я так живу..... Сквозь радости и кризы,
взлетая ввысь и падая в пике

That's how I live...Through joys and crises,
Flying up high and falling in a nosedive

(from Natalya Kuzmina's FB)
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И всё-таки: жизнь — это чудо,
А чуда не запретишь!
Да здравствует амплитуда -
То падаешь, то летишь!
(Виктор Боков)

And despite everything: life is a miracle,
And miracles cannot be forbidden!
Long live the amplitude:
One moment you're falling, the next moment--you're flying!

(Viktor Bokov)

(from Svitlana Papenko's FB)
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And here's an old favorite I was able to find again recently:

Синусоида
Е. Долматовский

Научись встречать беду не плача:
Горький миг - не зрелище для всех.
Знай: душа растет при неудачах
И слабеет, если скор успех.
Мудрость обретают в трудном споре.
Предначертан путь нелегкий твой
Синусоидой радости и горя,
А не вверх взмывающей кривой.

A Sinusoid, by E. Dolmatovsky

Learn to meet trouble without crying:
A sorrowful moment is not a spectacle to display to everyone.
Know this: your soul grows stronger with failures
And weakens if success comes too quickly.
Wisdom is acquired during difficult arguments.
Your difficult path is outlined by
A sinusoid of joy and grief,
And not by an upwards-soaring curve.
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(and no, I don't entirely agree with the poem's message, in case you're wondering)
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This is the graph: