Rumi

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”

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

“Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”

“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.”

“Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.”

“At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me.”

“Patience is the key to joy.”

“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it.”

“With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.”

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

“In the silk market of Tabriz I am running about asking for the price of silk.”

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”

“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.”

“Why are you so afraid of silence? Silence is the root of everything.”

“When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom to the ocean.”

“Be like the sun, the wind, the earth. Give to those who need it.”

“What you seek is also seeking you.”

“Forget your life. Say God is great. Get up.”

“Cry out in your weakness.”