Rumi

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

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

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

“In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern emerges.”

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”

“You think the shadow is the substance.”

“The breeze of dawn is the breath of the beloved.”

“My friend, this body is your lute.”

“Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Love comes on strong.”

“Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.”

“Whatever loss you face, withhold not yourself from the road; that road has its own end.”

“The man of God is drunken without wine; the man of God is full without meat.”

“Pass beyond form, escape from names; flee titles and names toward meaning.”

“Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”

“The fountain of the soul is musk and amber; the fountain of the body is water and clay.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”