Hafez Quotes

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

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

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

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

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

“Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun”

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

“True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation”

“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.”

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

“Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Happiness is right in front of you.”

“Love is simply creation's greatest joy.”

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

“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?”