Persian author quotes Quotes

“You know what love is?It is all kindness, generosity.”

“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”

“This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.”

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”

“From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.”

“Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."”

“If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.”

“Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them”

“There is an original inside me.”

“I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover”

“You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.”

“What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.”

“The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.”

“Live in the opening wherethere is no door to hide behind.”

“If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.”

“My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.”

“Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:every success depends upon focusing the heart.”

“I can heal a broken heart with a smile.”

“This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.”

“TheEarth would dieIf the sun stopped kissing her.”

“I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.”

“If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.”

“Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.”

“Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love.”

“And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”

“My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be.”

“The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search.”

“The intellectual is always showing off,the lover is always getting lost.The intellectual runs away.afraid of drowning;the whole business of loveis to drown in the sea.Intellectuals plan their repose;lovers are ashamed to rest.The lover is always alone.even surrounded by people;like water and oil, he remains apart.The man who goes to the troubleof giving advice to a loverget nothing. He's mocked by passion.Love is like musk. It attracts attention.Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadowof your love, that somehow containsthe entire universe.”

“You had better run from me. My words are fire.”

“Everything has to do with loving and not loving.”

“Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.”

“If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flowerI will pitch my tent in your shadow.Only your presence revives my withered heart.You are the candle that lights the whole worldand I am an empty vessel for your light.”

“I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love”

“If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.”

“There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?”

“Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.”

“I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.”

“If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.”

“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.”

“We are the Sun with all the differentkinds of Light.”

“This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.”

“Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.”

“Close the language-door,and open the love-window”

“All is known in the sacredness of silence.”

“When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?”

“Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.”

“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”

“A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.”