Rumi

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

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

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

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

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Syllables govern the world.

The only way to know is to live, learn, and grow.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!