Hafez
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.Collection: Hopeful
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!Collection: Spiritual
Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad daysCollection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Sweet
Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!Collection: Bravery
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'.Collection: Loneliness
There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.Collection: Bitterness
Love is simply creation's greatest joy.Collection: Love Is
The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.Collection: Lips
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.Collection: Fear
Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.Collection: Two
I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.Collection: Mind
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.Collection: Flower
There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.Collection: Running
We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.Collection: Love
The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.Collection: World
A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.Collection: Beautiful
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?Collection: Jobs
How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.Collection: Excellence
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.Collection: God
You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.Collection: Sweet
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.Collection: Bird
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.Collection: Patience
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.Collection: Spiritual
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.Collection: Hope
Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!Collection: Fate
'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!Collection: Fate
Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.Collection: Laughter
We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Spiritual
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.Collection: Love
Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.Collection: Jobs
Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Death