A space for me to share my thoughts, poems, and quotes.

Quotes 10/24-11/2

Lots of Rumi and Poetry this week. đź’›

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi 

“Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry? If everything around seems dark, look again. You may be the light. Don’t get lost in your paid. Know that one day your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi 

“Everything you love is likely to be lost, but In the end, love with return in a different way.” -Franz Kafka 

“I make room for joy without demanding that it erase my grief.” – Izzie Babea 

“As a Rascal Flatt earther, I believe that Earth is a highway” 

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” -Rumi 

“Oh Most Beautiful One of all the Worlds, I heard about Your qualities. For all who listen and whom You have entered through the openings of their ears, You thus remove the distress of their bodies. To those who have eyes, the sight of Your beauty constitutes the complete fulfillment of their life’s purpose. Therefore I have without any shame devoted my mind to You Acyuta!” – Rukimini to Lord Krishna in the Bhagavata Purana 

“At the back where we squat outside, eating popcorn, the edge of the receding glacier where painfully and with wonder at having survived even this far, we are learning to make fire” Margaret Atwood 

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles” – Willa Cather 

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