Latest Quotes

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“Don't cover your face. The world is a reeling, drunken body, and you are its intelligent head. Don't hide the candle of your clarity. Stand up and burn through the night, my prince.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“Here’s something I don’t feel is often discussed when we talk about anal sex: It can actually be really intimate. A friend of mine who’s married swears that her and her husband’s increased regularity of anal sex has made their sex life far more exciting and satisfying, and has brought them closer to…”

— Karley Sciortino, Breathless: Is Anal Sex No Longer Taboo?

“What makes me different from the other people you’ve been with?”

— Samantha Rodman, A List of 100 Questions to Ask Your Partner on Date Nights

“As the taboo around anal sex – and particularly, ladies loving anal sex in a genuine, not ‘pretending to love it to make my boyfriend happy’ kind of way – dies a long-overdue death, we’re learning more about how many people are doing it, how they’re doing it, and why they love it, on a more anatomic…”

— Jessica Blankenship, Sex Is Hard: Answers To Questions About Anal Orgasms, Swallowing, And Pubic Hairdos

“Did you go through puberty before or after everyone else, or right on time?”

— Samantha Rodman, A List of 100 Questions to Ask Your Partner on Date Nights

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“I am not a self-depreciating, submissive mouse of a woman. I am a successful corporate working business woman with a sharp fashion sense and heels as high as my standards and my sex drive. I LOVE anal sex. Of course it took some time, practice, and 2 really hot men to get me to love it, but now I ca…”

— Belle Aria, Why Women Should Have Anal Sex

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

“When he goes in, it’s going to feel strange at first. Actually, anal sex always feel strange. It’s hard to explain but the whole thing just feels wrong. I don’t mean that in a moralistic or bad way. I mean, it just literally feels unnatural because you’re using an exit as an entrance. Funnily enough…”

— Ryan O'Connell, What It Feels Like To Get F***ed In The Ass

“My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don’t let me wait,”

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition