Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
- Topic: Life
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More Quotes from Rumi
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
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.
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In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
No garden is without its weeds.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
