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  • #1
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
    Rumi

  • #2
    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    Robert Frost

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    Rumi

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
    Rumi

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
    There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
    You feel it, don't you?”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
    Rumi

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
    Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
    Rumi

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I have lived on the lip
    of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
    knocking on a door. It opens.
    I've been knocking from the inside.”
    Rumi

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #16
    Socrates
    “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
    Socrates

  • #17
    You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you
    “You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
    Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

  • #18
    Gabriel Bá
    “Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.”
    Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

  • #19
    Joshua Wisenbaker
    “If your life was complete, you'd be dead.”
    Joshua Wisenbaker

  • #20
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”
    L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

  • #21
    George Santayana
    “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
    George Santayana

  • #24
    Stephen Richards
    “Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done.”
    Stephen Richards

  • #25
    Henry David Thoreau
    “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #26
    Joyce Maynard
    “You just want to give up, he said when he was able to speak. Only you keep going. You still have to get up in the morning and pour the cereal in the bowls. You keep on breathing, whether you want to or not. Nobody's around to tell you how it's supposed to work. The usual rules just don't apply anymore.

    He was still talking, but she wasn't even sure if it was to her.

    When it started, he said, I thought nothing could be worse than those first days. And it wasn't only us, but everyone else you'd see, wandering around like they'd landed on a whole different planet. Instead of just dealing with your own heart getting ripped into pieces, wherever you looked you knew there were other people dealing with the same thing. You couldn't even be alone with it. Like you're out in the ocean and the undertow catches you and you start yelling for help, but then you look around, and all around you in the water for as far as you can see, there's all these other people flailing too.

    He sat there for a moment, shaking his head.

    You keep getting up in the morning and knowing this will continue maybe ten thousand more mornings. You wish you were the one who died.

    How much better would that be?”
    Joyce Maynard, The Usual Rules

  • #27
    Kathleen O'Neal Gear
    “Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly still. Never solid or finished. Always like water flowing from one place to the next. Seed and fruit. Rain and drought, everything traveled in a gigantic circle, an eternal process of becoming something new. But we rarely saw it. Humans tended to see only frozen moments, not the flow of things.”
    Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, Bone Walker

  • #28
    Victor Hugo
    “There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    Rumi

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

  • #31
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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

  • #32
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    Rumi



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