Excerpts from "Forty Rules of Love"

"You say you want to travel the path,but you don't want to sacrifice anything to that end.Money,fame ,power,lavishness or carnal pleasure-whatever it is that one holds most dear in life,one should dispose of that first".

"Fret not where the road will take you.Instead concentrate on the first step.Thats the hardest part and thats what you are responsible for.Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest wil follow.do not go with the flow.be the flow."

"Doubts are good.it means you are alive and searching".

"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough".
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        -Shams of Tabriz