Rumi

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

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.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

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

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found myself, myself as well.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.