Rumi

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

You show your worth by what you seek! – 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.

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

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

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Wake up, you’ve been sleeping. Take up your bed and walk. Stop blaming other people. Oh, it’s nobody else’s fault.

What is once well done is done forever.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning’s greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.