My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
RumiRead
There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote expresses the deep longing for a profound connection or experience that fulfills us completely throughout our lives.
Rumi's quote emphasizes a universal desire for an enduring love or connection that transcends momentary infatuations and fills our lives with purpose and joy. It suggests that there are certain relationships or experiences that we yearn for deeply, shaping the essence of our existence and driving us to seek them out relentlessly.
Themes
LoveConnectionLongingLifeDesire
In practice
Example use cases
During a wedding speech, you can quote this to highlight the importance of love in a lifelong partnership.
More from Rumi
All quotes βThe Law of Wonder rules my life at last, _x000D_ ...I burn each second of my life to Love _x000D_ Each second of my life burns out in Love _x000D_ In each leaping second Love lives afresh.
RumiRead
Lovers have heartaches _x000D_ That can't be cured by drugs _x000D_ Or sleep, _x000D_ Or games, _x000D_ But only by seeing their beloved.
RumiRead
Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
RumiRead
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God _x000D_ manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of _x000D_ the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and _x000D_ the leaf.
RumiRead
Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
RumiRead
Similar quotes
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Maya AngelouRead
Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
Milan KunderaRead
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?
Michael PollanRead
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
Naomi Shihab NyeRead
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezRead