Rumi

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.

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found myself, myself as well.

You show your worth by what you seek! – Rumi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

A home without a cat-and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat-may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.