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First Quotes by Rumi
- Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
- Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
- When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
- My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my…
- My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it…
- When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind
- When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.
- The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
- Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or…
- I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First, Last, Outer, Inner, only that…
- Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.
- Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
- This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally,…
- The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
- The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're…
- Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
- Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
- I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a…
- Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.
- This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In…
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