The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
HAFEZSing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
More Hafez Quotes
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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you Pray Somewhere in this world – Something good will happen.
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We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.
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Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
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It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.
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God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, “You’re it. I mean you’re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen.”
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
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I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being.
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Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.
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Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.
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I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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Think of suffering as being washed.
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Grieve not because thou understand-not life’s mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
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True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
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Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
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What we speak becomes the house we live in.
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Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
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