Rumi

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.

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

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

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

A man is a god in ruins.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

You will find only what you bring in.