Rumi
Persian poet and Sufi mystic, 1207-1273
16 quotes.
Quotes by Rumi
- As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
- Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
- Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
- Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
- It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Never lose hope, my heart. Miracles dwell in the invisible.
- Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
- The wound is the place where the light enters you.
- Trust in God, yet tie the camel's leg.
- When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
- With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
- Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
- Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.
- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.