Rumi Quotes

1. Silence gives answers. – Rumi

2. Sit, be still, and listen. – Rumi

3. The source of now is here. – Rumi

4. Patience is the key to joy. – Rumi

5. What you seek is seeking you. – Rumi

6. Let your teacher be love itself. – Rumi

7. Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. – Rumi

8. Dance until you shatter yourself. – Rumi

9. The soul is here for its own joy. – Rumi

10. Let yourself become living poetry. – Rumi

11. Let silence be the art you practice. – Rumi

12. Let the beauty we love be what we do. – Rumi

13. Be an empty page, untouched by words. – Rumi

14. I should be suspicious of what I want. – Rumi

15. Open your hands if you want to be held. – Rumi

16. Let silence take you to the core of life. – Rumi

17. Only from the heart can you touch the sky. – Rumi

18. If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. – Rumi

19. Either give me more wine or leave me alone. – Rumi

20. Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. – Rumi

21. Love risks everything and asks for nothing. – Rumi

22. Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. – Rumi

23. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. – Rumi

24. May these vows and this marriage be blessed. – Rumi

25. Life is balance of holding on and letting go. – Rumi

26. To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. – Rumi

27. Love is the bridge between you and everything. – Rumi

28. I know you’re tired but come, this is the way. – Rumi

29. Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. – Rumi

30. Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. – Rumi

31. Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. – Rumi

32. Respond to every call that excites your spirit. – Rumi

33. Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. – Rumi

34. There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen. – Rumi

35. The lion is most handsome when looking for food. – Rumi

36. Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists. – Rumi

37. As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. – Rumi

38. Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. – Rumi

39. We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. – Rumi

40. What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout. – Rumi

41. In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear. – Rumi

42. Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought. – Rumi

43. These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. – Rumi

44. When will you begin that long journey into yourself? – Rumi

45. Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that. – Rumi

46. What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. – Rumi

47. The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom. – Rumi

48. Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake. – Rumi

49. Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. – Rumi

50. Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the light. – Rumi

51. Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything. – Rumi

52. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. – Rumi

53. Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live. – Rumi

54. If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. – Rumi

55. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. – Rumi

56. The message behind the words is the voice of the heart. – Rumi

57. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. – Rumi

58. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? – Rumi

59. The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind. – Rumi

60. What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. – Rumi

61. You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? – Rumi

62. The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. – Rumi

63. You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern. – Rumi

64. The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires. – Rumi

65. Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness. – Rumi

66. You have within you more love than you could ever understand. – Rumi

67. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. – Rumi

68. Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets. – Rumi

69. I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind. – Rumi

70. By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. – Rumi

71. The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you. – Rumi

72. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? – Rumi

73. Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen. – Rumi

74. The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you. – Rumi

75. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. – Rumi

76. Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it. – Rumi

77. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. – Rumi

78. I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within. – Rumi

79. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi

80. When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. – Rumi

81. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open. – Rumi

82. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. – Rumi

83. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. – Rumi

84. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. – Rumi

85. Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom. – Rumi

86. Why are you knocking at every door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart. – Rumi

87. In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. – Rumi

88. With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart. – Rumi

89. I have neither a soul nor a body, for I come from the very Soul of all souls. – Rumi

90. Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love. – Rumi

91. Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. – Rumi

92. Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. – Rumi

93. When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe. – Rumi

94. When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. – Rumi

95. Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder. – Rumi

96. Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there. – Rumi

97. Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. – Rumi

98. I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. – Rumi

99. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. – Rumi

100. Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden. – Rumi