Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder

Help someone’s soul heal

Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me

There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away.

All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own soul.

Enter the ruins of your heart and learn the meaning of humility.

Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that’s why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

Everything in the universe is within you

Ask all from yourself.

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.

Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.

Rumi