Hafez Quotes

Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

Hafez

• God
• Heart
• Eyes
• Wisdom
• Spiritual
• Missing
• Grief

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • God
  • Writing
  • Love

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • God
  • Sun

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Single

• God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Government
  • Impossible

• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Food
  • Water

• I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Hard Work

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • God
  • Greatest

• He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Long
  • Freedom

• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • God
  • Need
  • Hell

• We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual

• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Man
  • Day

• Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

  

  Gary North
  • God
  • Why
  • Law

• There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

  

  Patrick Campbell
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Courage

• Work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Lie
  • Christian Church

• Of all the unhappiness I went through, you must know I wouldn't live a moment of my life differently for what I have now. Would I do it all again? I wouldn't want to, but if it got me to the same place, yeah, I'd do it. Because I realize now that God would not give more than I could handle.

  

  Nell Carter
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Home
  • Pretty

• The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Human
  • Taste

• Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

  

  Hafez
  • God
  • Heart
  • Eyes