We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.
HAFEZEveryone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.
More Hafez Quotes
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
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There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
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Light will someday split you open.
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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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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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
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Happiness is right in front of you.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
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The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.
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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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Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.
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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
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