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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.
Anselm Feuerbach. Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Hafiz
Persian lyric poet (Khwāja Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ), widely read in Iran and the Persianate world. Traditionally dated c. 1315–1390 in Shiraz.
7 quotes
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I'd like to see you in better living conditions.
The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
You carry within you a thousand gifts, but you are holding on to the one thing that keeps them hidden.
What do you want? asks God. To feel your presence. What else? asks God. Nothing else, I say.