Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
HAFEZThere is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
More Hafez Quotes
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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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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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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The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
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I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your own being.
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.
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What we speak becomes the house we live in.
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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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When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.
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For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
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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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You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.
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Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.
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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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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
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We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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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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The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.
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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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Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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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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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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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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