Rumi Quotes

The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

The wise man who has charge of governing the empire should know the cause of disorder before he can put it in order. Unless he knows its cause, he cannot regulate it.

Li Yi-an was the greatest poetess of China. Once her husband asked one of his friends to pick out the best lines that he liked from a number of his poems, having, however, concealed in them some pieces by his wife. The friend picked out, to his dismay, only lines from her pen.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.

Just because we cannot afford human insulin, we are having to use animal insulin, so let me do something about it

Allusions to "hidden counsels" and "mysterious reasons" are almost always the mark of doctrinal incoherence.

Justice always assumes that an individual's rights are guaranteed. We cannot talk about justice without speaking about rights. Regarding peace, we must see it in correlation with justice. Peace is possible only if justice prevails. Peace can only be created with justice.

And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

His name was so famous at that time that all the priests and doctors consulted him in any difficult matter... Those, he says, who adhere to the letter of the Scripture will never see the kingdom of God, hence we should seek the spirit of the word, which is hidden and mysterious. p. 46

That was the burden,' she mused, 'laid on me in the cradle; murmured by waves; breathed by restless elm trees; crooned by singing women; what we must rememeber; what we would forget.

In Malaysia, you cannot misrepresent yourself as an accountant unless you are a member of MIA (Malaysian Institute of Accountants).

I aspire to eventually help provide cochlear implants to those who cannot afford it and give them the same gift my community has given me.