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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #4
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    John Lennon

  • #5
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #6
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    “Mapmaker mapmaker
    make me a map

    one to one scale,
    without a single gap.

    Map every rock,
    every thought, every tree

    and erase all the territory.”
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
    Rumi

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “My heart is so small
    it's almost invisible.
    How can You place
    such big sorrows in it?
    "Look," He answered,
    "your eyes are even smaller,
    yet they behold the world.”
    Rumi

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I choose to love you in silence…
    For in silence I find no rejection,

    I choose to love you in loneliness…
    For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

    I choose to adore you from a distance…
    For distance will shield me from pain,

    I choose to kiss you in the wind…
    For the wind is gentler than my lips,

    I choose to hold you in my dreams…
    For in my dreams, you have no end.”
    Rumi

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Try something different. Surrender.”
    Rumi

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't try to steer the boat.
    Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
    You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
    And if you do speak, ask for explanations.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

    “In prayer all are equal.”
    Rumi

  • #16
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves."

    "You suppose you are the trouble
    But you are the cure
    You suppose that you are the lock on the door
    But you are the key that opens it
    It's too bad that you want to be someone else
    You don't see your own face, your own beauty
    Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours."

    "Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

    "People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another."

    "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

  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I am so close, I may look distant.
    So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
    So out in the open, I appear hidden.
    So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.”
    Rumi

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
    For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.”
    Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Woman is the light of God.”
    Rumi

  • #20
    “It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.”
    Mark W Boyer

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Look carefully around you and recognize
    the luminosity of souls.
    Sit beside those who draw you to that.”
    Rumi

  • #22
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #23
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “لو رَغِبْتَ الحياةَ، اهجُر ضِفافَكَ”
    Rumi, رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
    Rumi

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “make your last journey
    from this strange world
    soar for the heights
    where there is no more
    separation of you and your home

    God has created
    your wings not to be dormant
    as long as you are alive
    you must try more and more
    to use your wings to show you're alive”
    Jelalludin Rumi

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “A lover knows only humility, he has no choice.
    He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice.
    He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice.
    In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of
    his imprisonment, he has no choice.”
    Jelaluddin Rumi

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.”
    Rumi

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “come on sweetheart
    let's adore one another
    before there is no more
    of you and me”
    Rumi
    tags: love

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The middle path is the way to wisdom”
    Rumi



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