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.
HAFEZGrieve not because thou understand-not life’s mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
More Hafez Quotes
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Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.
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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me.
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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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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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Think of suffering as being washed.
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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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What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
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There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
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The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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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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The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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Run my dear, From anything, That may not strengthen, Your precious budding wings.
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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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There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.
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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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I am happy even before I have a reason.
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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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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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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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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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