Rumi

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

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

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

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold. I was hopeless, now I’m on hope road.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.