RUMI

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

"The cure for pain is in the pain."

"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."

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

"Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent."

"Either give me more wine or leave me alone."

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."

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

"A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home."

"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust."

"Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies."

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

"Travel brings power and love back into your life."

"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle."

"They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?"

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."

"If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health."

"Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives."

"Try something different. Surrender."

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

"Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love."

"I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud."

"A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke."

"Beauty surrounds us."

"The lion is most handsome when looking for food."

"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one"

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

"I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life."

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition."

"The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize."

"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames"

"Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives."

"Dance until you shatter yourself."

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."

"No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping."

"There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope."

"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces."

"Give your weakness to one who helps."

"Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being."

"Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend."

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you."

"She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her."