I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. ― Rumi

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She straightens her hair, puts on eyeliner, glosses her lips and takes one last look in the mirror, all for the boy who doesn't care. ― Frank Ocean

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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. ― Rumi

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When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all. ― Nicholas Sparks

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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ― Rumi

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

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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.― Rumi

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ― Rumi

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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. ― Rumi

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Travel brings power and love back into your life. ― Rumi

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