Rumi on Stoicism Quotes

"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."

"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!"

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

"Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?"

"The lion is most handsome when looking for food."

"Reason is powerless in the expression of Love."

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

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!"

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

"Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees."

"Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise."

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."

"Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"Patience is the key to joy."

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?"

"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."

"Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That is where the light enters you."

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you."

"Travel brings power and love back into your life."

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind."