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.
HAFEZWhen all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.
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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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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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There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.
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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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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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When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.
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The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
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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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