There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
HAFEZWhat 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’
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Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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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.
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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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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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Happiness is right in front of 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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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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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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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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I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.
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True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
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I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being.
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The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.
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A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.
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What is the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.
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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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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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The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
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I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.
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Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.
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