Hafez Quotes

I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

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.

Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light ... And let it breathe.

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

Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.

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

Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

And even though the drunkenness of love
Has ruined me,
My being's built upon those ruins for
Eternity

I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world -
Something good will happen.

Happiness is right in front of you.

Every desire of your body is holy;
Every desire of your body is
Holy.

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.

The tide of my love
Has risen so high let me flood
over
You.

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

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'.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

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

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 Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.

We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

He was so slim, his heart was visible

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

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

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.

Fear not to follow with pious feet the corpse of Hafiz, for though he was drowned in the ocean of sin, he may find a place in paradise.

All your wounds from craving love
Exist because of heroic deeds.

There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.

For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.

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

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

O thou who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copybook of reason, I am very much afraid you will never see the point.

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

The
Earth would die
If the sun stopped kissing her.

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

I once asked a bird,
"How do you fly in this gravity of darkness ?"
And she replied "Love lifts me"

~ Hafiz~

If at last thou attain the desire of thy life,
Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office

Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.

You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.

When no one is looking,
I swallow deserts and clouds
and chew on mountains
knowing they are sweet bones!
When no one is looking
and I want to kiss God,
I just lift my own hand to my mouth.

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

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure ...

Your life within God's arms, Your dance within God's arms, Is already Perfect!

Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don'ts,
Not the God who ever does
Anything weird,
But the God who knows only 4 words
And keeps repeating them, saying:
"Come Dance with Me."
Come Dance.

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the best;
Withdrawn from sorrow in some quiet nook - this is the best

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

I long for You so much
I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks
That are high in the mountains
That I know are years old.
I long for You so much
I have even begun to travel
Where I have never been before.

What does life give me in the end but sorrow?
What do love's good and evil send but sorrow?
I've only seen one true companion - pain,
And I have known no faithful friend but sorrow.

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.

The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

Light will someday split you open

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine ... that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

Listen; this world is the lunatic's sphere ,
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else.

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

For as you talk of God,
I see great parades with wildly colorful bands
Streaming from your mind and heart,
Carrying wonderful and secret messages
To every corner of this world.

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.

I am a hole in the flute that the Christ's breath moves through listen to this music

I am the concert from the mouth of every creature
singing with the myriad chorus

Quote by Hafiz

Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.

Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.

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

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.

When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.

Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.

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

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

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.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That.