“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com