Rumi Quotes
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I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case… Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.
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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.
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Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.
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I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will never lead you astray.
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What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.
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When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the world.
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I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?
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I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing
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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.
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This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.
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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
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Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
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Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people.
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Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
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Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.