When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.
RumiKnow mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.
RumiIf all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.
RumiSorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
Rumi