Rumi

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

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

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

Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance…on the path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

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

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.