Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
HAFEZWhat do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
More Hafez Quotes
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Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.
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Think of suffering as being washed.
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I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.
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We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.
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Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.
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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say ‘here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life’.
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The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this… and the Ocean does that.
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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
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The sun will stand as your best man And whistle When you have found the courage To marry forgiveness When you have found the courage to marry Love.
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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
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Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
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