Rumi

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

"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."

"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."

"If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it."

"I know you're tired but come, this is the way."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!"

"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"

"I am yours.Don't give myself back to me."

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

"Give your weakness to one who helps."

"You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art."

"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."

"I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns."

"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."

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there."

"Forget safety.Live where you fear to live.Destroy your reputation.Be notorious."

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."