Quotes by Persian Authors - Page 4

The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Jalaluddin Rumi
The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord,That all the misbelieving and black HordeOf Fears and Sorrows that infest the SoulScatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
Omar Khayyám
A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence.
Jalaluddin Rumi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
Sa'di
Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Omar Khayyám
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
Jalaluddin Rumi
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.
Omar Khayyám
In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.
Bedil
Every particle of dust on a patch of earthWas a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star;Shake the dust off your sleeve carefully--That too was a delicate, fair face.
Omar Khayyám
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Jalaluddin Rumi
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,and strikesThe Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light
Omar Khayyám
I waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you
Jalaluddin Rumi
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
Sa'di
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
Jalaluddin Rumi
You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you’ve treasured up at home are nothing.
Omar Khayyám
My wails of sorroware tormenting my soul
Jalaluddin Rumi
If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
Jalaluddin Rumi
You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.
Jalaluddin Rumi
If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home.
Jalaluddin Rumi
The wit taught by God to the beeIs withheld from the lion and the wild ass.
Jalaluddin Rumi
What does life give me in the end but sorrow?What do love's good and evil send but sorrow?I've only seen one true companion - pain,And I have known no faithful friend but sorrow.
Hafez
I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Go back,go back to sleep.Yes, you are allowed.You who have no Love in your heart,you can go back to sleep.The power of Loveis exclusive to us,you can go back to sleep.I have been burntby the fire of Love.You who have no such yearning in your heart,go back to sleep.The path of Love,has seventy-two folds and countless facets.Your love and religionis all about deceit, control and hypocrisy,go back to sleep.I have torn to pieces my robe of speech,and have let go of the desire to converse.You who are not naked yet,you can go back to sleep.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
Saadi
An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission.Mevlana Jalal ad-Din RUMI
Jalaluddin Rumi
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
Jalaluddin Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.First, to let go of life.In the end, to take a step without feet;to regard this world as invisible,and to disregard what appears to be the self.Heart, I said, what a gift it has beento enter this circle of lovers,to see beyond seeing itself,to reach and feel within the breast.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Woman is the light of God.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.
Omar Khayyám
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.
Cyrus the Great
Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.
Jalaluddin Rumi
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Saadi
Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
yet you worry what people are saying.
Jalaluddin Rumi
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Men who suffer not, attain no perfection. The plant most pruned by the gardeners is that one which, when the summer comes, will have the most beautiful blossoms and the most abundant fruit. The laborer cuts up the earth with his plough, and from that earth comes the rich and plentiful harvest. The more a man is chastened, the greater is the harvest of spiritual virtues shown forth by him.
Abdu'l-Bahá
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
Jalaluddin Rumi
The word grows mad on the fermentOf angry actions, the authorities can only inflictVisible punishments. Now regard with the unpracticedInner eye the unseen presence of Judgement thenYou will understand the nature of your soul's torment
Jalaluddin Rumi
You were sent to unite peopleYou were not sent to divide people.
Jalaluddin Rumi
I choose to love you in silence…For in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in loneliness…For in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distance…For distance will shield me from pain,I choose to kiss you in the wind…For the wind is gentler than my lips,I choose to hold you in my dreams…For in my dreams, you have no end.
Jalaluddin Rumi
There is no faith in the smile of the rose
Hafiz of Shiraz
All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
Bahá'u'lláh
God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.
Mansur al-Hallaj
If thou covetest riches ask not but for contentment which is an immense treasure.
Sa'di
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
Jalaluddin Rumi
You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.
Omar Khayyám
The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forgeT that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.
Shams Tabrizi
If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free.
Jalaluddin Rumi
You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
Jalaluddin Rumi
I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Jalaluddin Rumi
My whole desire is to burn myself away.
Hafiz of Shiraz
The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Jalaluddin Rumi