Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

"The earth laughs in flowers."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"Dance when you're broken open. Dance if you've torn the bandage off."

"You are not separate from the whole. You are the whole."

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of the beauty within yourself."

"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle."

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another."

"Patience is the ornament of the brave."

"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."

"The wound is the place where Light enters."

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

"Do not look for illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond."

"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."

"Greed and caution are two different things."

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

"If in the marketplace someone strikes you and snatches your robe, do not follow after him with anger."

"You are the universe experiencing itself."

"The heart has its own language. Let no one rule your mind."

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live."

"Kill the snake of doubt with the sword of faith."

"When you are with everyone but me, you are with no one. When you are with no one but me, you are with everyone."

"Out of this world, I do not wish to go. All that I've ever loved is here."

"You think because you understand one, you must understand all others, but you take your understanding of one as the prototype of all."

"All religions, all this singing, one song."

"Move outside of your comfort zone. You will not grow if you do not challenge yourself."

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot."

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."