Rumi Quotes
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A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.
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I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart.
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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.
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You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart. You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts. I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.
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I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?
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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.
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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
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I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.