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Pain Quotes by Rumi

41 Pain quotes by Rumi

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Through love, all pain is said to turn into medicine, changing bitterness into sweetness and even copper into gold. The verses also describe a broken heart as a unique way to glimpse the divine, where suffering and healing meet. They suggest that love and pain are two sides of the same mirror, each reflecting the other.

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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

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O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

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Every love outside of HIS love, is pain.

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Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.

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“The cure for the pain is in the pain.”

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The cure for pain is in the pain.

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“My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul”

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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

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Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

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To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

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When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge...

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Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

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The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with…

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You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.

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For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

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For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

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Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and…

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Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be…

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The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the…

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I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might…

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Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the…

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I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility. where…

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Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly…

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People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul…

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I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep…

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When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in…

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Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I…

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We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are…

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Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant…

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The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain…

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“The Ripe Fig Now that You live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images, which…

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A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

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“Every part of you has a secret language. Your hands and your feet say what you have done. Every need brings in…

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Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to…

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We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are…

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One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don't get…

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We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to…

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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs…

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You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale?…

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Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so…

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I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…

“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”