Rumi Quotes

Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are.

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one.

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

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

We are all bathed in the same light.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved,be like that to me!

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.