The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
HAFEZDo not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
More Hafez Quotes
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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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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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An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
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Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
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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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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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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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The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
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Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
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True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
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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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We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.
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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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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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