My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition:… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts. — Rumi Copy Share Image
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image