C. > C.'s Quotes

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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

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

“People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.”
― Rumi

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
― Rumi

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

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
― Rumi

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
― Rumi

“If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.”
― Rumi

“You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!”
― Rumi