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.
HAFEZHow Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.
More Hafez Quotes
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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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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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You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say ‘here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life’.
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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.
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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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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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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
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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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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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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 know that all that you do is sacred.
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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.
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There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
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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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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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