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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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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RumiRumi Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
RumiRumi I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
RumiRumi In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances.
RumiRumi The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.
RumiRumi Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
RumiRumi Travel brings power and love back into your life.
RumiRumi All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
RumiRumi Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
RumiRumi These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
RumiRumi You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
RumiRumi Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
RumiRumi Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
RumiRumi Woman is the light of God.
RumiRumi What you seek is seeking you.
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Desire something and don’t just care what you have to go through to get it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Schwarzenegger To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark TwainMark Twain I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
Thich Nhat HanhThich Nhat Hanh To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces – desire, belief, and expectation.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamA. P. J. Abdul Kalam If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche
