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“Yesterday, I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I want to change myself.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“There is a way of breathing that’s a shame and a suffocation and there’s another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? 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.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You’re some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won’t have to become coins.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times, still and yet again come!”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“You are not meant for crawling. You have wings, use them.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you’ve grown, lifting.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“There’s a hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you’re full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should....”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness

“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― John Balkh, Rumi Poetry: 101 Quotes Of Wisdom On Life, Love And Happiness