Quotes by Rumi

“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love”

“Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.”

“It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you”

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”

“I said: what about my eyes?God said: Keep them on the road.I said: what about my passion?God said: Keep it burning.I said: what about my heart?God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?I said: pain and sorrow?He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

“Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.”

“Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,and your face will come to shine like a sun,and everyone who sees it willbe made glad and peaceful.”

“In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.”

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

“Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.”