Shannon > Shannon's Quotes

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

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi

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

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

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

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

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Rumi

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

“On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a
day.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Within tears, find hidden laughter
Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ”
― Jalaludin Rumi

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

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
― Rumi

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

“You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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

“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.”
― Rumi

“Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
Don't try to see through the distances.
That's not for human beings. Move within,
But don't move the way fear makes you move.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“If the wine drinker
has a deep gentleness in him,
he will show that when drunk.
But if he has hidden anger and arrogance,
those appear.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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

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

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

“Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”
― Rumi

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

“You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.”
― Rumi

“I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”
― Rumi

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe