Rumi

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

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

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.

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

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

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

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I never met a woman I didn’t like. I love ’em all, in their different ways.

Am I in love with you? Or am I in love with the feeling?

Sometimes the heart is deceiving.

I have you in one world, but I need you in two: the hands and the heart, just one won’t do.

He’s out his head, I’m out my mind. We got that love, the crazy kind.

I have never had trouble to love others, but loving myself was difficult. For years I didn’t like myself, so how could I love myself. It has taken time, and still there is a way to go, but I can say, not only do I like myself, but also care about myself enough to start loving myself too.

Loving him is like trying to hold onto an armful of balloons. Maybe I need someone to come along and pop them.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them-we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation… and that is called loving. Well then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.