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.
HAFEZGrieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
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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 once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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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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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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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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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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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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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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Come Dance with Me , come dance.
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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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Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
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Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.
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