The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
HAFEZAll these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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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Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business – why not find a better job?
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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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We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.
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Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.
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It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.
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For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
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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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God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.
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You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.
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Think of suffering as being washed.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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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 only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine…that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
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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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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.
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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
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Come Dance with Me , come dance.
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Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
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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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What we speak becomes the house we live in.
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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