- “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
- “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
- “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
- “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
- “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
- “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
- “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
- “If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”
- “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
- “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
- “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
- “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”
- “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
- “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
- “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
- “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”
- “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
- “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
- “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
- “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
- “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
- “And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
- “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
- “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
- “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”
- “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
- “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”
- “Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”
- “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”
- “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”
- “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
- “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.”
- “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
- “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
- “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
- “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
- “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”
- “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
- “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
- “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
- “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
- “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”
- “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
- “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
- “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
- “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
- “There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I’ll meet you there.”
- “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.”
- “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
- “Sit, be still, and listen.”
- “Patience is the key to joy.”
- “If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
- “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
- “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”
- “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
- “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
- “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.”
- “Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”
- “Let yourself become living poetry.”
- “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”
- “Be an empty page, untouched by words.”
- “The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.”
- “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
- “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
- “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”
- “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
- “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”
- “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
- “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
- “The source of now is here.”
Inspirational Rumi Quotes
- “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
- “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.”
- “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.”
- “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
- “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
- “Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.”
- “The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.”
- “You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.”
- “Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.”
- “With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.”
- “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
- “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
- “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
- “Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.”
- “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
- “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it.”
- “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
- “The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.”
- “When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
- “There is a life force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.”
Funny Rumi Quotes
- “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
- “Beauty surrounds us, but usually, we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
- “I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”
- “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
- “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
- “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved.”
Wise Rumi Quotes
- “Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
- “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
- “Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.”
- “The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.”
- “All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”
- “Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything.”
- “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
