Rumi

When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

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

Give your weakness to one who helps.

When you go through a hard period,When everything seems to oppose you,... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,NEVER GIVE UP!Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

I am yours.Don't give myself back to me.

I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.