Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
HAFEZIt 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.
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What is the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.
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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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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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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
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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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Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.
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Listen; this world is the lunatic’s sphere , Don’t always agree it’s real, Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door My address is somewhere else.
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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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Happiness is right in front of you.
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Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
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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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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
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