Rumi

Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance…on the path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not hide from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Remember who you are.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Today is a king in disguise.