Rumi

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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.

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

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman – repose in energy.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

You are a constant. Forever in my mind; forever in my heart. It seems that most matter how much I try I can’t get rid of you. You are a thorn, stuck in deep; painful to remove, and even when I do, still I’ll bleed and feel the soreness. It will take time, but it will heal. No matter the pain, I will still dare to pick roses.

In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Self-command is the main discipline.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

If it matters, it will hurt like knives or wrap and lift you in the most immeasurable joy. Or both. One thing is certain, you will feel intensely alive.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.