Jalaluddin Rumi

Sometimes if I see negative things it really doesn’t faze me, because you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to be you.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

For who is pleased with himself.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Events tend to recur in cycles…

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.