Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
HAFEZThe only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine…that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
More Hafez Quotes
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When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.
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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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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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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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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
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Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
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You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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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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Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.
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Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
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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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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
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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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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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I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being.
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
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The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this… and the Ocean does that.
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Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.
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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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We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.
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The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
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