Rumi

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

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

If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.

You show your worth by what you seek! – Rumi

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Nothing is real.

A crank is someone with a new idea – until it catches on.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.