Rumi

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

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

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

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

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

Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

I don’t like needing anyone for anything.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

When you place yourself in a position to help another, you will discover your greater capabilities.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.