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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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If at last thou attain the desire of thy life,
Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!
Hafez
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
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
Hafez
There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
Hafez
It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.
Hafez
