More from Hafez
This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
HafezHafez The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this… and the Ocean does that.
HafezHafez Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
HafezHafez 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.
HafezHafez Let’s get loose with Compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambience of Love.
HafezHafez How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
HafezHafez 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.
HafezHafez True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
HafezHafez 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.
HafezHafez 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.”
HafezHafez Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
HafezHafez 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.
HafezHafez 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.
HafezHafez Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
HafezHafez 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.
HafezHafez Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale In another life, you kept your word, and forever’s still ours for the taking.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Journey with struggle becomes a great tale in the future.
Carla StokesCarla Stokes I’m not asking that you take the bullet for me. I wish you’d shoot first.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery A rainy day is the perfect excuse to explore deeper feelings.
Emily BockEmily Bock Stop taking care of everyone else before you take care of yourself.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson Music is a weed, we all fallen souls are high on.
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More on creation
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger I am the flail of god. Had you not created great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
Genghis KhanGenghis Khan The path is the destination, and the destination is hidden in the path, as the Creator is hidden in creation.
SadhguruSadhguru Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate – namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler My emotions allow me to create that is something only I dictate.
Shannon Van AlstShannon Van Alst
