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Here are a few from the Mevlana I like, even though I am not so spiritual a person. I think I translated them right:
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whomever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
And a few good non-heartbreak related ideas:
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves.
People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
Since in order to speak, one must first listen. Learn to speak by listening
Sigh no more, ladies! Sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever.
One foot at sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
And sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hay, nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Or dumps so dull and heavy,
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was levy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hay, nonny, nonny.
-- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
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