Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
HAFEZYour heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
More Hafez Quotes
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Light will someday split you open.
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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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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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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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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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Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
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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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Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
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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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There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.
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Everyone, 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.
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Think of suffering as being washed.
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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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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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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