For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
HAFEZI 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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The sun will stand as your best man And whistle When you have found the courage To marry forgiveness When you have found the courage to marry Love.
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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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How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.
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How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
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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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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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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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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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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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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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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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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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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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