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Language Quotes by Rumi
- Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
- Speak with the language of love.
- Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.
- Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.
- In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.
- There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow…
- Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love
- Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.
- This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use…
- All language is a longing for home.
- Empathy is even better than talking in one language
- silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
- You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the…
- Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land…
- At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and…
- The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
- Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love
- Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
- You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn,…
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