Hafez

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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.
- Hafez
Collection: Children
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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.
- Hafez
Collection: Beautiful
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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.
- Hafez
Collection: Love
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People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
- Hafez
Collection: Song
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
- Hafez
Collection: Laughter
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Think of suffering as being washed.
- Hafez
Collection: Pain
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
- Hafez
Collection: Sacred
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Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.
- Hafez
Collection: Compassion
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Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
- Hafez
Collection: Journey
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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
- Hafez
Collection: Beautiful
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Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
- Hafez
Collection: Integrity
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Happiness is right in front of you.
- Hafez
Collection: Happiness
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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.
- Hafez
Collection: Powerful
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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.
- Hafez
Collection: Laughing
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I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.
- Hafez
Collection: Integrity
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The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.
- Hafez
Collection: Ocean
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
- Hafez
Collection: Greatness
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Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
- Hafez
Collection: Love
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Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
- Hafez
Collection: Heart
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Light will someday split you open
- Hafez
Collection: Inspirational
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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.
- Hafez
Collection: God
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What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
- Hafez
Collection: Laughter
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This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
- Hafez
Collection: Love
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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."
- Hafez
Collection: Believe
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Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
- Hafez
Collection: Heart
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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.
- Hafez
Collection: Thinking
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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.
- Hafez
Collection: Book
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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 up the whole sky.
- Hafez
Collection: Sky