Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

"There are lovers content with eyeing each other across the street, but you are not such a lover."

"I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love fit inside me?"

"Music is the remedy of a troubled and diseased mind."

"Like a tree with roots in the earth and branches reaching into space."

"Wherever you walk, you crush flowers. But where you walk, new gardens bloom."

"Silence is the language God speaks. All else is a poor translation."

"The only real house is the soul. Make that your sanctuary."

"Everything you want is already given. All you have to do is ask and receive."

"Don't seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond."

"I am a mirror. I reflect you. You are a mirror. You reflect me."

"The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind."

"Let yourself become living poetry."

"Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, Love me. Of course you do not do this out loud."

"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"The glory of this world passes away. Invest in eternity."

"There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there is another way: a breath of love."

"How do I get absolved of my past? By my love and passion moving forward."

"Let yourself be loved by the One who knows you best."

"The art of knowing is knowing what to overlook."

"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."

"A chicken could not lay an egg unless she had a shell, and a pearl could not be born."

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, it became a butterfly."

"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."

"The wound is where the Light enters. Accept your pain as a teacher."

"Do not shut the day or night up in the boxes of your clock."

"You are the God particle experiencing itself."

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."

"Every piece of the universe is contained within you."

"Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest and let the spirits fly in and out."

"Love is not an emotion. Love is your very existence."