"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl." ~ Rumi


"If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it." ~ Rumi


"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." ~ Rumi


"Adversity is the diamond dust that Heaven polishes its jewels with." ~ Leighton


"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves." ~ Salma Hayek


"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius


"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more." ~ Seneca

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." ~ Kahlil Gibran


"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." ~ Kahlil Gibran


"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror." ~ Kahlil Gibran


"Your task isn't to seek love, but to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~ Rumi


"Lovers have a religion and a faith of their own" ~ Rumi


"From cane reeds,sugar.From a worm's cocoon,silk.Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet." ~ Rumi


"No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light." ~ Rumi


"Beauty is the eye discovering in our world what the mind already knows." ~ Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red)


"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~ Confucius


"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." ~ Maori Proverb


"A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary."
~ Ingrid Bergman


"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace" ~ Jimi Hendrix


"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" ~ Maya Angelou


"How much of human life is lost in waiting?" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." ~ Aesop