Hafez Quotes

Light will someday split you open

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?

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

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

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.

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.

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."

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

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

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

For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.

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

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

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

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

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.

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

Come Dance with Me , come dance.

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

Laugh because that is the purest sound.

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

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.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

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.

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.

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

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

Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.

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

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

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.