More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
