Knock the Window
Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who is there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who is there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Don’t go anywhere without me.
Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,
or on the ground, in this world or that world,
without my being in its happening.
Vision, see nothing I don’t see.
Language, say nothing.
The way the night knows itself with the moon,
be that with me. Be the rose
nearest to the thorn that I am.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Kahlil Gibran
Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come.
Some things that don’t happen keep disaster from happening.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
There’s nothing worse than to walk out along the street without you.
I don’t know where I’m going.
You’re the road and the knower of roads,
more than maps, more than love.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
We are the night ocean filled with glints of light.
We are the space between the fish and the moon,
while we sit here together.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick.
I try to stay just above the surface, yet I’m already under
and living within the ocean.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.
— Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice
* This was written so beautifully! Such a joy to read this part of the chapter. This paragraph occured after Mr. Darcy proposed to Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzie).
If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.
— Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet after she thanked him for his “unexampled kindness to her poor sister” in Pride & Prejudice
* I’ll make this project at least 1 post per day.