Rumi

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

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.

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

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.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.