RUMI
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
“Grief can be the garden of compassion.
If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”
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“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Edgar Allan Poe
"Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?"
Robert Frost
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.