Rumi Quotes

"Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along."

"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."

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. What you seek is seeking you."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."

"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."

"Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening, so your Life will stay fresh."

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

"You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it."

"Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul."

"One change is thought leads to a change in your destiny."

"Every new day is another chance to change your life."

"Life picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment."

"The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same."

"Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT."

"Wash the dust from your Soul and Heart with wisdom's Water."

"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand."

"Every soul becomes gold, when touched by the Beloved."

"Only the soul knows what Love is."

"Lose your soul in God's Love,
I swear there is no other way."

"If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away."

"Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom."

"O, happy the soul that saw its own faults."

"When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth"

"Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space."

"People want you to be happy, don’t keep serving them your pain."

"If you look for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless."

"The one who has a good friend doesn’t need any mirror."

"Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love."

"Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend."

"Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you."

"My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way."

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."

"Let silence take you to the core of life."

"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean."

"Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear."

"I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection."

"Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don’t seek the river. Don’t turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea."

"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

"Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly become one with the Sun of Love, and Love will shine through you its all-healing joy."

"Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude."

"The path of gratitude is not for children; it is path of tender heroes, of the heroes of tenderness who, whatever happens, keep burning on the altar of their hearts the flame of adoration."

"Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives."

"You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

"Anyone who genuinely and constantly with both hands looks for something, will find it."

"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."

"Don’t be satisfied with stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth."

"There is a desert I long to be walking. A wide emptiness, peace beyond any understanding of it."

"The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind."

"I found the Divine within my Heart."

"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."

"Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart."

"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility."

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."

"I can heal a broken heart with a smile."

"Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"You are the light of the universe; never dim your shine."

"The lamps are different, but the Light is the same."

"Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; how much it can fill your room depends on its windows."

"As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and cleaner."

"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."

"The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on Earth."

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

"Know that one day, your pain will become your cure."

"Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart."

"Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born. Oh friend! There is treasure in your heart, it is heavy with child. Listen. All the awakened ones, like trusted midwives are saying, 'welcome this pain. It opens the dark passage of Grace."

"I profess the religion of love, Love is my religion and my faith. My mother is love My father is love My prophet is love My God is love I am a child of love I have come only to speak of love."

"We are born of love. Love is our mother."

"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?"

"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."

"When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!"

"Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations."

"You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange."