Rumi

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

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.

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

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

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Go fish and hunt far and wide day by day – farther and wider – and rest thee by many brooks and hearth-sides without misgiving. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Why do the words I want to say, struggle to come out of my mouth. Why does fear have such a grip over me. I shouldn’t have to battle to say all the complimentary things I so desperately want to share. It shouldn’t be this hard, that I have to force myself; it’s wrong that such loving words, should have to be spoken under such duress. I’m aware of how wrong it is, but withholding is all I have known, even though I desire so badly to share my thoughts and feelings with you, as freely as you do with me.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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

What is once well done is done forever.

Remember where you came from.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.