Persia Quotes

• 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 up the whole sky.

  Unknown

  Love, Inspirational, Good Morning

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• I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

  Democritus

  Gains, Causes, Kingdoms

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

  Hafez

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Light

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• Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

  Ismail Merchant

  Strong, Roots, Language

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• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.

  John Foxe

  Fear, Loss, People

  John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (1978). “Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs”, p.33, Zondervan

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• The sun will stand as your best man
  And whistle
  When you have found the courage
  To marry forgiveness
  
  When you have found the courage
  to marry
  Love.

  Hafez

  Love, Men, Sun

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• 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.

  Hafez

  Death, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.

  Hafez

  God, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

  Oliver Stone

  Iran, Cameras, India

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• Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  India, Population, World

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• The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Eight

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• We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

  Hafez

  Love, Dear Ones, Needs

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• We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Courage

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• Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.

  Hafez

  Jobs, Worry, Negativity

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• We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

  Hafez

  Love, Life, People

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• Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  Hafez

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

  Hafez

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

  Hafez

  Love Is, Joy, Soul

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• Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

  Hafez

  Love, Freedom, Earning

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• This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

  Hafez

  Love, Marriage, Sky

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• In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Horse, Kings, Government

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• Once in Persia reigned a king
  Who upon his signet ring
  Graved a maxim true and wise,
  Which if held before the eyes
  Gave him counsel at a glance
  Fit for every change and chance.
  Solemn words, and these are they:
  "Even this shall pass away."

  Theodore Tilton

  Wise, Time, Kings

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• Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

  Herman Melville

  Horse, Musical, Golden

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.280, Herman Melville

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• Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, Middle East, Different

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

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