Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.
HAFEZYour 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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Run my dear, From anything, That may not strengthen, Your precious budding wings.
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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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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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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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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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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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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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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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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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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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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 rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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