"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." - Rumi 

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"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?" - Rumi

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"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition." - Rumi

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"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." - Rumi 

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"When you go through a hard period, when everything seems to oppose you, when you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, never give up! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!" - Rumi 

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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." - Rumi 

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"The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore." - Rumi 

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"When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray." - Rumi

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"I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within." - Rumi

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"The lion is most handsome when looking for food." - Rumi 

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"As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears." - Rumi

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"Travel brings power and love back into your life." - Rumi 

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"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you." - Rumi 

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"What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi

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"The wound is the place where the light enters you." - Rumi

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"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." - Rumi 

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"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi

 

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?" - Rumi 

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"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." - Rumi

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"What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs." - Rumi 

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

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"As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears." - Rumi 

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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." - Rumi 

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"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation." - Rumi 

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"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." - Rumi

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"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." - Rumi 

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"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." - Rumi 

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"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?" - Rumi 

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"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about." - Rumi

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"Love is the bridge between you and everything." - Rumi

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"The soul is here for its own joy." - Rumi

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"You have within you more love than you could ever understand." - Rumi

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"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth." - Rumi

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"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." - Rumi

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"Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. If not, leave this gathering." - Rumi

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"The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself." - Rumi

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"The wound is where the light enters you." - Rumi

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"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure." - Rumi

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"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you." - Rumi 

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