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.
HAFEZAn awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.
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The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
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Run my dear, From anything, That may not strengthen, Your precious budding wings.
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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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There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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Your life within God’s arms, Your dance within God’s arms, Is already Perfect!
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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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People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
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True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
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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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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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How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.
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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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