"Don't allow your animal nature to rule..." - Quote by Rumi

“Fasting is the first principle of medicine.”

“Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.”

“Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”

“There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.”

“No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.”

“Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.”

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”

“The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.”

“I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,But qualify the fire's extreme rage,Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.”