Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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Quotes by Rumi
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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
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