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18 Quotes That Will Awaken Your Mind And Heal Your Aching Heart

Classic wisdom for modern times. 
Brianna Wiest
August 21, 2016
“For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.”
— Hafiz, The Gift
“This is the kind of Friend
You are -
Without making me realize
My soul's anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off
All my suffering and sordid past
In Your beautiful
Hands.”
— Hafiz, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
“The heart is a
The thousand-stringed instrument

That can only be tuned with
Love.”
— Hafiz, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
“Lean your sweet neck and mouth
Out of that dark nest where you hide,
I will pour effulgence into your mind.”
— Hafiz, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
“What you seek is seeking you.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
“When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
“There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector's Edition
“Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hear a solemn voice that says:
"Heaven and hell are inside.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector's Edition
“When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector's Edition
“Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector's Edition
“Scholars really have nothing to teach you.
But from the soft touch of the eyelashes of
a woman you will know all there is to know about happiness.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector's Edition
“Where is an intimate
friend
who’ll hear the secret
from me straight out –
of what human beings
have been
from the moment they began?
They
are
born
of toil
and molded
from
the clay of sorrow.
They wander the world for a time,
then
set
off.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector's Edition
“Don't pursue happiness!
Life is as short as a sigh.
The dust of people that were once famous
turn with the reddish clay on the wheel you are
looking at. The universe is a fata morgana;
life is a dream.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector's Edition
“The wound is where the light enters.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition