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.
HAFEZSpeak 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
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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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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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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
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True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
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Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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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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God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, “You’re it. I mean you’re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen.”
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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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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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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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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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This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
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