"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love"
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment."
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life."
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you"
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us."
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"What you are seeking is also seeking you."
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"Lamps are different, but light is the same."
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming"
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)