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.

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

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.

The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

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

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.

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.