quotes

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Rumi

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire. Rumi

Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open? Rumi

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Rumi

If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. Rumi

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. Rumi

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. Rumi

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth. Rumi

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. Rumi

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Rumi

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. Rumi

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Rumi

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Rumi

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. Vivekananda

If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. Vivekananda

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Vivekananda

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. Vivekananda

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you but do not think of that now. Vivekananda

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. Vivekananda

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Vivekananda

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Vivekananda

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. Vivekananda

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. Vivekananda

All the power is within you, you can do anything and everything. Vivekananda

The greatest teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Vivekananda

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. Vivekananda