Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
—Hafiz
One regret, dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
—Hafiz
God is trying to sell you something, but you don't want to buy. That is what your suffering is: your fantastic haggling, your manic screaming over the price!
—Hafiz
I am glad that my master lived in a one-story house when I began to traverse the early stages of love. For when he would speak of the wonders and the beauty of creation, I could not control my happiness and would commence a dance that most always resulted in a dive, head first, out of his window. And you only broke your big nose seventeen times.
—Hafiz
Slipping on my shoes, boiling water, toasting bread, buttering the sky: that should be enough contact with God in one day to make anyone crazy.
—Hafiz