What 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.
HAFEZIn time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
More Hafez Quotes
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For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
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When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
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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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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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I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.
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I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.
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We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
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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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You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.
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I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being.
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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The 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.
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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
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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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