Rumi Quotes

The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets.

Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

Such a strong thing LOVE, changes everything.

Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center.

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Those with open hearts always have open hands.

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.

Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In God's Eyes.

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.

Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.

Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

Oh god Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.

Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

God does not look at your outer forms, but at the love within your love.

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.

Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me, do not go. ...Oh, you cannot go, without me.

At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.

Speak with the language of love.

One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of.

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First, Last, Outer, Inner, only that breath breathing. HUMAN BEING.

I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.