The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
HAFEZGod 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.”
More Hafez Quotes
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
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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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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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One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
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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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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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True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
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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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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 caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me.
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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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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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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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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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