Quotes - Robert Wallace (New York, NY) Showing 1-30 of 55

#1

“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

tags: inspirational-love, misattributed

9599 likes

#2

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

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

6295 likes

#3

“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

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

9445 likes

#4

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

tags: inspirational

4308 likes

#5

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

tags: inspirational

4269 likes

#6

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

4236 likes

#7

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi

tags: joy

4287 likes

#8

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

3799 likes

#9

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

tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent

3425 likes

#10

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

2797 likes

#11

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

2217 likes

#12

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

1906 likes

#13

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
― Rumi

tags: heart, love, seperation, soul

2226 likes

#14

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi

1725 likes

#15

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

1455 likes

#16

“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

tags: love

1185 likes

#17

“Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: inspirational

1201 likes

#18

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

1191 likes

#19

“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
― Rumi

tags: wine

1082 likes

#20

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

1157 likes

#21

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

tags: follow-your-heart, guidance, inclination, occupations, preferences, pull

1186 likes

#22

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi

1148 likes

#23

“When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: inspirational-quotes

1015 likes

#24

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

964 likes

#25

“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

910 likes

#26

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

tags: pain

987 likes

#27

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

947 likes

#28

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”
― Rumi

845 likes

#29

“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.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational, love, spiritual

788 likes

#30

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational-moon

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