There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
HAFEZWhen no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.
More Hafez Quotes
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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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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.
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Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
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This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
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What we speak becomes the house we live in.
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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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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.
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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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God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.
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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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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 am happy even before I have a reason.
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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
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Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.
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