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.

Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

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

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he does not.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Lilac anemone, paper petals, turning tentatively to face a pale sun opening to reveal a lightness of being, a flash of gold, a fresh resilience, contented silence, the dawn of a new day.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.