More from Rumi
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.
RumiRumi Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
RumiRumi A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
RumiRumi 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
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on dance
Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.
Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Stars are always dancing. Sometimes they dance twinkling away with the rhythm of your joyful heart and sometimes they dance without movement to embrace your heartache as if frozen sculptures of open-armed sadness.
Munia KhanMunia Khan Sand between her toes she dances with earth without a care in the world.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery I’m a singer. I’m a dancer. I’m a performer. I’m an actress. That’s what I’m supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?
Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That’s what my life was.
Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it’s all just one thing.
Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez I have been blessed with strong leg muscles, and dancing really exercises one’s legs.
Sushant Singh RajputSushant Singh Rajput
