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

— Rumi · Love quote

Poet and mystic · 1207 – 1273

13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose Masnavi is among the most influential works of Islamic literature.

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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

The moon stays bright when it does not avoid the night.

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

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

How many flee from one calamity into another; how many leap from the snake towards the dragon.

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.