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.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

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

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Lovers don't meet somewhere along the way. They're in each other's hearts from the beginning.

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

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

The water in the vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

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.

You have within you more love than you could ever understand.