More from Hafez
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’.
HafezHafez We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.
HafezHafez Run my dear, From anything, That may not strengthen, Your precious budding wings.
HafezHafez You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
HafezHafez Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
HafezHafez What 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.
HafezHafez I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.
HafezHafez I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music.
HafezHafez Think of suffering as being washed.
HafezHafez 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.
HafezHafez I am happy even before I have a reason.
HafezHafez Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
HafezHafez Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
HafezHafez The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
HafezHafez All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
HafezHafez Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
Sania AbbasSania Abbas
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Lal Bahadur ShastriLal Bahadur Shastri I am nothing less than a divine vessel for growth, for love, for healing, for abundance.
Isabel RocioIsabel Rocio The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne GretzkyWayne Gretzky Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
John C. MaxwellJohn C. Maxwell
