31 Quotes by Persian authors

Persian sayings breathe from gardens and bazaars, where wit and wonder walk together. Their tone is intimate yet expansive: love and longing, dust and starlight, handled with a dervish’s light step and a judge’s precision. Expect metaphors that fold like silk, wine as wisdom, a mirror for the heart, the rose schooling the nightingale. Humor softens counsel; patience contends with fate; generosity stands beside skepticism. Echoes of Rumi, Hafez, Saadi, and Khayyam mingle with village proverbs, yielding aphorisms both earthly and luminous.

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"How shall a man escape from that which is written; how shall he flee from his destiny?"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do"

Rumi, Poet

"Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument about it and about, but evermore came out by the same door as in I went"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form"

Rumi, Poet

"The moving finger writes, and having written, moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit can cancel half a line of it"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet"

Rumi, Poet

"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home"

Rumi, Poet

"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet"

Sa'Di, Poet

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"A hair divides what is false and true"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"Now, when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart"

Rumi, Poet

"Therefore, in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"Living life tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; pass, therefore, not today in vain, for it will never come again"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness!"

Rumi, Poet

"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity"

Sa'Di, Poet

"Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye"

Sa'Di, Poet

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