Hafez Quotes

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• I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

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  Confidence, Self Esteem, Light

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

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  Inspirational, Glad To Be Alive, Alive

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• You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

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  Inspirational, Obstacles, Rise Above

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

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  Friendship, Hate, Heart

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• 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 Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Buddhist

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• What we speak becomes the house we live in.

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  Inspirational, House, Becoming

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• I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

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  Bird, Darkness, Gravity

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• This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

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  God, Purpose, Maps

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

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  Heart, Sleep, Light

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

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Courage

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• 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.

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  Heart, Cutting, Knives

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• 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.

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  Religious, Past, People

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

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  Famous Love, Heart, Instruments

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• It happens all the time in heaven,
  And some day
  
  It will begin to happen
  Again on earth -
  
  That men and women who are married,
  And men and men who are
  Lovers,
  
  And women and women
  Who give each other
  Light,
  
  Often will get down on their knees
  
  And while so tenderly
  Holding 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?

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  Eye, Men, Hands

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• I am in love with every church
  And mosque
  And temple
  And any kind of shrine
  Because I know it is there
  That people say the different names
  Of the One God.

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  Names, People, Church

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

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  Heart, Giving, World

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• I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  How are you?
  
  I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  What is God?
  
  If you think that the Truth can be known
  From words,
  
  If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
  Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,
  
  O someone should start laughing!
  Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

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  God, Truth, Lying

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• Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

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  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.

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  Life, Encouraging, Gratitude

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• 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 time
  the sun never says to the earth
  “You owe me”
  Look what happens with a love like that,
  It lights the whole sky..”

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  Mother, Children, Boys

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• Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

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  Beautiful, Running, Heart

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

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Courage

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• When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

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  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

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  Secret, Seeing

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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.

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

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