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“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
― John C. Maxwell

“If we are growing we are always going to be outside our
comfort zone.”
― John Maxwell

“Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)

I would be true, for there are those who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are those who care;
I would be strong, for there are those who suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless;
I would be giving, and forget the gift;
I would be humble, for I know my weakness;
I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You

“If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”
― John Maxwell

“Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.”
― John C. Maxwell

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness.”
― John Maxwell

“You cannot enjoy others until you
enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”
― John C. Maxwell, 25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
― Rumi

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
― Rumi

“Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.”
― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

“You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope.

And when you take the lead,
I become your footstep.
Your absence leaves a void.
Without you, I can't cope.

You have disturbed my sleep,
You have wrecked my image.
You have set me apart.
Without you, I can't cope.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu'l-din Rumi

“Do not leave me,
hide in my heart like a secret,
wind around my head like a turban.
"I come and go as I please,"
you say, "swift as a heartbeat."
You can tease me as much as you like
but never leave me.”
― Rumi

“Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling,
they're given wings.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Rumi

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
― Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“The same wind that uproots trees
makes the grass shine.

The lordly wind loves the weakness
and the lowness of grasses.
Never brag of being strong.

The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.
It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.
It leaves the leaves alone.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.”
― Rumi

“There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.

Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!

Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
― Rumi

“Don’t wait any longer.
Dive in the ocean,
Leave and let the sea be you.”
― Rumi