Rumi on desire
“Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
RumiRumi I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
RumiRumi The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
RumiRumi My lips got lost on the way to the kiss – that’s how drunk I was.
RumiRumi When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
RumiRumi Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
RumiRumi Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
RumiRumi What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
RumiRumi The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.
RumiRumi Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
RumiRumi In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
RumiRumi The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
RumiRumi Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
RumiRumi She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
RumiRumi As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
RumiRumi Dance until you shatter yourself.
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.
HafezHafez An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant It takes more than just desire to make something come true. It takes persistence and perseverance to fulfill a dream.
Jasmine KangJasmine Kang If you really feel for something and truly desire for something you shouldn’t let it go. You should go for it.
Jasmine KangJasmine Kang This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LivyLivy This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
LivyLivy This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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