Persian Poet Hafez Quotes

#1. I take on daunting tasks.

Elizabeth Emken

#2. You have a four-fold life to live: a body, a brain, a heart and a soul . . . these are your living tools. To use and develop them is not a task. . . . It is a golden opportunity.

William H. Danforth

#3. Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

Ovid

#4. I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

Thomas Beecham

#5. She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

Emraan Hashmi

#7. Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.

Joan Jett

#8. Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

Ayn Rand

#9. Beware of those who love to give advice, but never want to receive it!

Mignon' Talise Padilla

#10. All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Norman Thomas

#11. The hands really show signs of age.

Lela Rose

#12. If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

Clarence Darrow

#13. The PCT had taught me what a mile was.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Jack Butler Yeats