Hafez Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“TheEarth would dieIf the sun stopped kissing her.”

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

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

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

“Think of suffering as being washed.”

“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..””

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

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

“Laugh because that is the purest sound.”

“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.”

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