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.
HAFEZCome, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music.
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Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
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Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
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Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
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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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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.
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Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light…And let it breathe.
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Come in, my dear from that harsh world that has rained elements of stone upon your tender face. Every soul should receive a toast from us for bravery!
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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 once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts 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 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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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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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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What we speak becomes the house we live in.
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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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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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Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
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Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels to be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.
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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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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
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