Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. – Rumi

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. – Rumi

If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. – Rumi

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I’ve lived too long where I can be reached. – Rumi