Explore Quotes by Hafez

Run my dear,_x000D_From anything_x000D_That may not strengthen_x000D_Your precious budding wings.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

Your love_x000D__x000D_Should never be offered to the mouth of a_x000D__x000D_Stranger,_x000D__x000D_Only to someone_x000D__x000D_Who has the valor and daring_x000D__x000D_To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife_x000D__x000D_Then weave them into a blanket_x000D__x000D_To protect you.

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

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

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.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

Every desire of your body is holy;_x000D__x000D_Every desire of your body is_x000D__x000D_Holy.

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

Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

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

I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

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.

Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

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.

Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.

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!