Hafez

“TheEarth would dieIf the sun stopped kissing her.”

“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.”

“Your loveShould never be offered to the mouth of aStranger,Only to someoneWho has the valor and daringTo cut pieces of their soul off with a knifeThen weave them into a blanketTo protect you.”

“It happens all the time in heaven,And some dayIt will begin to happenAgain on earth -That men and women who are married,And men and men who areLovers,And women and womenWho give each otherLight,Often will get down on their kneesAnd while so tenderlyHolding their lover's hand,With tears in their eyes,Will sincerely speak, saying,My dear,How can I be more loving to you;How can I be more kind?”

“There isA madman inside of youWho is always running for office”

“The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.”

“The sun will stand as your best manAnd whistleWhen you have found the courageTo marry forgivenessWhen you have found the courageto marryLove.”

“Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.”

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

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

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”

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

“Happiness is right in front of you.”

“The tide of my loveHas risen so high let me floodoverYou.”

“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.”

“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.”

“All your wounds from craving loveExist because of heroic deeds.”

“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.”

“Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.”

“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.”

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

“Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.”

“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,“Nothing, I just helped him cry.²”“Even after all this timethe sun never says to the earth“You owe me”Look what happens with a love like that,It lights the whole sky..””

“Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.”

“Not loving is a letting go.Listen,The terrain around hereIsFar tooDangerousForThat.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

“Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

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

“Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.”

“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'.”

“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?”

“If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.”

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

“Love is simply creation's greatest joy.”

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

“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.”

“On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.”

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

“There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.”

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

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.”

“I am happy even before I have a reason.”

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

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

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

“Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.”