Muhammad Ali

“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

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

“remember that trying is eighty percent of doing something. So try and don't give up, because not giving up is the other twenty percent.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi