Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

The quieter you become, you more you are able to hear.

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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not hide from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.

Wit and Humor – if any difference, it is in duration – lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage – the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.

Today is a king in disguise.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Try not. Do or do not… there is no try.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.