I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’
HAFEZThe world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.
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Happiness is right in front of you.
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
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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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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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I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
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Let’s get loose with Compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambience of Love.
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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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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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Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
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Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
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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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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
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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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Light will someday split you open.
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Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
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What we speak becomes the house we live in.
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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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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.
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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 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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Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
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The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.
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