Hafez Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

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

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

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.

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