Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
HAFEZThere is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.
More Hafez Quotes
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The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
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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.
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I long for You so much I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks That are high in the mountains That I know are years old. I long for You so much I have even begun to travel Where I have never been before.
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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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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.
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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
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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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Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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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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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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