When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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Force rarely persuades; gentleness grows. Rumi contrasts thunder with rain to remind us that kindness, not volume, is what makes things flourish.
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Thirteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose verses on love and longing are read worldwide.
This line is among the quotes by Rumi that readers return to on wijsheid — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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