Rumi

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

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

Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. The Times talked of the childrens hour. I disagree. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom. One can almost feel the curl of contempt upon the lips of the manhood of Germany, Italy, and France when they read the message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Young England. Let them be assured that it is not the last word. But before they blame, as blame they should, these callow ill-tutored youths, they must be sure that they have not been set a bad example by people much older and much higher up.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.