Emily

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

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

“I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be answered,’ said Gandalf. ‘You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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