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“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din 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

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

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

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
― Rumi

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

“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

“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
― Rumi

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

“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
― Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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

“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
― Rumi

“There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.”
― Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
― Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Life is too short to be little.”
― Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or, The New Generation

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”
― Benjamin Disraeli