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#1

“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

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#2

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

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#3

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

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

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#4

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: lovers

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#5

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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#6

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

tags: inspirational-singing

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#7

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

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#8

“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
― Rumi

tags: reason-love

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#9

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

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#10

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

tags: pain

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#11

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational, life-lessons, purpose

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#12

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

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#13

“Beauty surrounds us.”
― Rumi

tags: beauty

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#14

“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

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#15

“The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.”
― Rumi

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#16

“When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.”
― Rumi

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#17

“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
― Rumi

tags: persian-poetry, poetry, rumi, rumi-poetry

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#18

“There are lovers content with longing.
I’m not one of them.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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#19

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
― Rumi

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#20

“The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: rumi

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#21

“Shine like the whole universe is yours.”
― Rumi

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#22

“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”
― Rumi

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#23

“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی

tags: pain

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#24

“I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me.”
― Rumi

tags: love

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#25

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart”
― Rumi

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#26

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

tags: joy

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#27

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization

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#28

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

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#29

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

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#30

“reason is powerless in the expression of love”
― Rumi

tags: love

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