Rumi on Strength Quotes

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

"Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live."

"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."

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

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

"The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked."

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

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

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

"Grace comes to forgive and then to forgive again."

"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand."

"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you."

"Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within 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."

"Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape."

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

"Patience is the key to joy."

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

"Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure."

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

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

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

"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle."

"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter."

"The mountain remains unmoved by the wind, but the dust is blown away."

"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."

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

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."

"The water of life is hidden in the darkness. Do not fear the dark."

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

"Keep walking, though there's no joy in it or even any hope of joy."

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