Rumi

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.

You show your worth by what you seek! – Rumi

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.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Nothing does more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

In a man’s letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

For we put the power in the people.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.