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Quotes about Heart by Rumi

  • On this path let the heart be your guide.
  • You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
  • Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
  • You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean? Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
  • To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.
  • I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.
  • Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.
  • Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
  • Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
  • The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
  • When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
  • The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.
  • Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
  • 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.
  • If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.
  • Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.
  • Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
  • My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
  • The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.
  • Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
  • The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
  • Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
  • Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
  • Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
  • We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!