I am a big fan for Jalaluddin Rumi, during my college years he was my favorite poet. Recently, I was super ecstatic to visit his tomb in Turkey. Now, I try to live my life by his famous quotes. I totally believe in his life philosophy. Here's a brief intro to Jalaluddin Rumi. Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mowlānā, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.

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Rumi's quotes for a content life

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 Your task is not to seek love, but merely
to seek and find all the barriers within
yourself that you have built against it.

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 Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to
change the world. Today I am wise, so I
am changing myself.

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 You were born with wings, why prefer to
crawl through life?

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 Raise your words, not voice. It is rain
that grows flowers, not thunder.

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 Ignore those that make you fearful and
sad, that degrade you back towards
disease and death.

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 Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond
that draws one person to another, not
words.

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 This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to
cause a hundred veils to fall each
moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to
take a step without feet.

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 The wound is the place where the light
enters you.

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 Wherever you are, and whatever you
do, be in love.

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 Start a huge, foolish project, like
Noah…it makes absolutely no
difference what people think of you.

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 Reason is powerless in the expression
of love.

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 You have to keep breaking your heart
until it opens.

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 Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober will
worry about things going badly. Let the
lover be.

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 I want to sing like the birds sing, not
worrying about who hears or what they
think.

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 When the world pushes you to your
knees, you’re in the perfect position to
pray.

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 Be empty of worrying. Think of who
created thought.

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 The lion is most handsome when
looking for food.

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 Love is the bridge between you and
everything.

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 To praise the sun is to praise your own
eyes.