Hafez Quotes

#1. Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

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#2. Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.

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#3. He was so slim, his heart was visible

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#4. How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its Being.
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too
Frightened

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#5. Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

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#6. For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light ... And let it breathe.

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#10. 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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#11. Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

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#12. Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

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#13. Think of suffering as being washed.

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#14. I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world -
Something good will happen.

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#15. 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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#16. We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

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#17. God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

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#18. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.

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#19. 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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#20. I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.

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#21. If at last thou attain the desire of thy life,
Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

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#22. Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.

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#23. Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

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#24. The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

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#25. One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

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#26. 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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#27. Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

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#28. Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.

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#29. Light will someday split you open

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#30. 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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#31. Your life within God's arms, Your dance within God's arms, Is already Perfect!

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#32. There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office

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#33. You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.

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#34. We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

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#35. What we speak becomes the house we live in.

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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

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#42. Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

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#43. I am happy even before I have a reason.

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#44. Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

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#45. In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

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#46. Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

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#47. Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That.

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#48. Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

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#49. All your wounds from craving love
Exist because of heroic deeds.

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#50. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

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#51. Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

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#52. On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

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#53. Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

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#54. The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this ... and the Ocean does that.

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#55. 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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#56. There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.

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#57. 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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#58. Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

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#59. A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

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#60. 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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#61. Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

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#62. Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!

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#63. 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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#64. When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

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#65. Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

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#66. 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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#67. People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

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#68. How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

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#69. Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

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#70. Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

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#71. 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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#72. Run my dear,
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.

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#73. Every desire of your body is holy;
Every desire of your body is
Holy.

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#74. An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

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#75. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

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#76. Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.

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#77. I long for You so much
I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks
That are high in the mountains
That I know are years old.
I long for You so much
I have even begun to travel
Where I have never been before.

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#78. I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

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#79. 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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#80. The Body will again become restless Until your soul paints all its beauty Upon the Sky ... For when the heart tastes its glorious destiny And you awake ...

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#81. The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure ...

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#82. What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

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#83. Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.

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#84. The
Earth would die
If the sun stopped kissing her.

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#85. Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.

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#86. 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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#87. Whatis the root of all these words?
One thing: Love.
But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.

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#88. I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

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#89. Come Dance with Me , come dance.

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#90. Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

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#91. With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the best;
Withdrawn from sorrow in some quiet nook - this is the best

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#92. 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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#93. Happiness is right in front of you.

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#94. Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

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#95. The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.

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#96. The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine ... that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

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#97. This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

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#98. Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.

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#99. I wish I could show you ... the astonishing light of your own being.

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#100. 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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