More from Rumi
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.
RumiRumi Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
RumiRumi Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane!
RumiRumi Let silence take you to the core of life.
RumiRumi I see my beauty in you.
RumiRumi When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
RumiRumi Like a shadow, I am and I am not.
RumiRumi There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.
RumiRumi I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
RumiRumi Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
RumiRumi Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
RumiRumi There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
RumiRumi The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
RumiRumi The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
RumiRumi Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
RumiRumi Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
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Original quotes
From our community writers
How strange that our hearts heal from the same thing that broke it -love.
Cailin HargreavesCailin Hargreaves The peak of intensity is numbness not emotionless.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg She is everything and nothing at all.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole She built her castle at rock bottom.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Keep growing into yourself.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura what the sky is to a bird is like a dream for a dreamer.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman The Red Rose on my grave shows once I was in love.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander
Meet the writers
More on feeling
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
Nicole KidmanNicole Kidman I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
Alice PaulAlice Paul