Hafez Quotes

Sweet are the garden, the rose, and wine, but they would not be sweet without the company of my darling.

What drunkenness is this that brings me hope

The idea that a human being can achieve “perfect love” or “perfect knowing” may seem extraordinary, yet it is a belief shared by most spiritual systems.

THE FOUNDATION FOR GREATNESS Greatness Is always built upon this foundation: The ability To appear, speak, and act As the most Common Man.

In essence, all mysticism deals with processes of love and the ways in which one joins God through love. For Hafiz, the focus of love is often a Master of Love,

بشنو این نکته که خود را ز غم آزاده کنی

خون خوری گر طلب روزی ننهاده کنی

آخرالامر گل کوزه گران خواهی شد

حالیا فکر سبو کن که پر از باده کنی

گر از آن آدمیانی که بهشتت هوس است

عیش با آدمی ای چند پری زاده کنی

تکیه بر جای بزرگان نتوان زد به گزاف

مگر اسباب بزرگی همه آماده کنی

اجرها باشدت ای خسرو شیرین دهنان

گر نگاهی سوی فرهاد دل افتاده کنی

خاطرت کی رقم فیض پذیرد هیهات

مگر از نقش پراگنده ورق ساده کنی

کار خود گر به کرم بازگذاری حافظ

ای بسا عیش که با بخت خداداده کنی

ای صبا بندگی خواجه جلال الدین کن

که جهان پرسمن و سوسن آزاده کنی

"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."

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.

Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

با دلارامی مرا خاطر خوش است
کز دلم یک باره برد آرام را

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.