Hafez quotes

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

#Maps #Awareness #Where You Are

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

#Fear #Greatness #House

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

#Bird #Darkness #Gravity

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.
-- Hafez

#Beautiful #Running #Heart

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

#Love #Inspirational #Light

God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.
-- Hafez

#God #Fire #Together

I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you Pray Somewhere in this world - Something good will happen.
-- Hafez

#Promise #World #Praying

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

#Alive #Glad

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.
-- Hafez

#Heart #Cutting #Knives

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

#Hate #Heart #Old Friends

Your life within God's arms, Your dance within God's arms, Is already Perfect!
-- Hafez

#Perfect #Arms #God Life

Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.
-- Hafez

#Running #Wings #May

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
-- Hafez

#Heart #Light #Sky

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.
-- Hafez

#God #Feet #Air

The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
-- Hafez

#Kissing #Earth #Sun

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

#Believe #Mean #Blessing

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret
-- Hafez

#Secret

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
-- Hafez

#Eye #Earth #Way

When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.
-- Hafez

#Sweet #Kissing #Hands

Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
-- Hafez

#Letting Go #Dangerous

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

#Heart #Giving #World

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..”
-- Hafez

#Mother #Children #Boys

All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
-- Hafez

#Deeds #Heroic #Craving

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
-- Hafez

#Men #Broken #Camels

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.
-- Hafez

#Religious #Past #People