Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives. "
Rumi
Who
Know
Essence
Related Quotes:
" And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. "
Rumi
Power
Choice
Desire
" I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast. "
Rumi
I Am
Exist
Boundaries
" 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. "
Rumi
Autumn
Limit
Love
" Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad. "
Rumi
Hearts
Plant
Your
" However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. "
Rumi
Lovers
Love
I Am
" You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky. "
Rumi
Stars
Come
You
" 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. "
Rumi
Why
Sunlight
Simple
" If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. "
Rumi
Heart
Find
Face
" I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls. "
Rumi
Sun
King
Soul
" Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. "
Rumi
Heart
Desire
Everyone
" There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. "
Rumi
Again
Go
Home
" What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim. "
Rumi
Know
Myself
I Am
" Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. "
Rumi
Anything
You
Round
" Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers. "
Rumi
Bird
Soul
Now
" Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. "
Rumi
Hidden
Hid
Body
" 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. "
Rumi
Back
Home
Need
" Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. "
Rumi
Everything
Beautiful
Eye
" 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? "
Rumi
Blood
Eyes
Sad
" 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. "
Rumi
Love
Looking
Story
" I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.' "
Rumi
Love
Beginning
End
" 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. "
Rumi
You
Own
Soul
" 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. "
Rumi
Beautiful
God
Heart
" 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. "
Rumi
Within
Find
Love
" Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. "
Rumi
Beloved
Woman
She
" 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. "
Rumi
Soul
Tongue
Friend
" 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. "
Rumi
Life
Love
Pain
" Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. "
Rumi
Walking
Beauty
Know
" 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. "
Rumi
Fall
Step
Sky
" Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. "
Rumi
Hurt
Disappear
Boredom
" Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom. "
Rumi
Unhappy
Parcel
Why