Grief Can Be The Garden Of Compassion. If You Keep Your Heart Open Through Everything, Your Pain Can

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”

—Rumi

“Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”

—Rumi

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

—Rumi

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

—Rumi

“The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”

—Florence Nightingale

“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”

—Rumi