"I am happy even before I have..." - Quote by Hafez

“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..””

“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?”

“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.”

“In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.”

“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”

“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”

“What is now the foliage moving?Air is still, and hush'd the breeze,Sultriness, this fullness loving,Through the thicket, from the trees.Now the eye at once gleams brightly,See! the infant band with mirthMoves and dances nimbly, lightly,As the morning gave it birth,Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.”

“I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.”

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.”