Quote by Jalal ad-Din Rumi: “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

Live with passion and intensity, and surround yourself with people who encourage rather than suppress that energy. The people who push you to grow and feel fully alive are more valuable than those who simply make you comfortable.

Rumi composed much of his poetry in Konya in the years following the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258, an event that destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate and sent shockwaves through the entire Islamic world. Despite this catastrophic context, his poetry consistently chose vitality and love over despair.

Persian Sufi poet and Islamic scholar born in 1207 in present-day Afghanistan, whose works are among the most widely read poetry in the world. His masterpiece, the Masnavi, is a vast spiritual poem exploring love, loss, and union with the divine.