How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.
HAFEZIt 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
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Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.
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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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Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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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.
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It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.
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Happiness is right in front of you.
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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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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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Run my dear, From anything, That may not strengthen, Your precious budding wings.
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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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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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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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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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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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The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
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I am happy even before I have a reason.
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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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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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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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There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.
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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
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The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
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