Naved Sayed > Naved's Quotes

“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
― Rumi

“You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din, مثنوی معنوی

“The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.”
― Rumi

“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.”
― Rumi

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
― Rumi

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
― Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

“Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
― Rumi

“You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love,
so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.”
― Rumi

“The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
― Rumi

“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”
― Rumi

“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.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
― Jalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion”
― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی

“I will be waiting here....
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
― Rumi

“What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?”
― Rumi

“Like a shadow,
I am and I am not.”
― Rumi

“The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Whenever we can manage to love without
expectations,
calculations,
negotiations,
we are indeed in heaven.”
― Rumi

“Is your face a beautiful blossom
or a sweet torture?
I have no complaints
but my heart is tempted
to let you
hear of its sorrows.”
― Rumi

“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.”
― Rumi