Quotes By Rumi

To say this man had a way with words would be selling him far too short. The fact of the matter is that most all of these quotes by Rumi below are in fact very brief. Short and sweet. The sweetness is pungent with deep spiritual knowledge.

The more quotes by Rumi you read, the better your understand this world. This mans psyche was delivered through simply quotes. Teachings. That ring so true to any type of soul evolution.

Whether you are just getting started on your personal development and spiritual journey. Or you are getting near the end and ready to transcend this world. Rumi can help you get to that next level.

Helping us truly recognize, process and understand the human experience more deeply and clearly. Allowing us to get closer and closer to our own souls becoming enlightened.

201 Rumi Quotes

1. “The pains you feel are messengers, listen to them.” – Rumi

2. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” – Rumi

3. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” – Rumi

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

5. “Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.” – Rumi

6. “The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.” – Rumi

7. “We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you have been seeking has always been within.” – Rumi

8. “You have seen my descent, now watch my rising.” – Rumi

9. “I don’t have time to worry about who doesn’t like me. I’m too busy loving the people who love me.” – Rumi

10. “When our guides and those who are cherished by us leave and disappear, they are not annihilated, they are like stars that vanish into the light of the sun of reality.” – Rumi

11. “This moment is all there is.” – Rumi

12. “Respond to every cell that excites your spirit.” – Rumi

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

14. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.” – Rumi

15. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” – Rumi

16. “Yesterday, I was so cleaver. So I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

17. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi

18. “Do not try to explain. They will only understand as much as they see and hear.” – Rumi

19. “I searched for myself and I only found God. I searched for God and I only found myself.” – Rumi

20. “In a night full of pain & darkness, be a candle spreading the light until dawn.” – Rumi

21. “Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi

22. “With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.” – Rumi

23. “Whatever you love, you are.” – Rumi

24. “”Be an empty page, untouched by words.” – Rumi

25. “Live life as if everything was rigged in your favor.” – Rumi

26. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others, unfold your own myth.” – Rumi

27. “My soul is my guide.” – Rumi

28. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.” – Rumi

29. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all barries within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

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

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

32. “Those who are spiritually awake live in constant amazement.” – Rumi

33. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad.” – Rumi

34. “Beyond the rightness and wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi

35. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You fee it, don’t you.” – Rumi

36. “Don’t grieve, anything you love comes round in another form.” – Rumi

37. “What you seek, is seeking you.” – Rumi

38. “The cure for pain, is in the pain.” – Rumi

39. “Grace comes to forgive, and then forgive again.” – Rumi

40. “What hurts you, blesses you.” – Rumi

41. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi

42. “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.” – Rumi

43. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life.” – Rumi

44. “Never give from the depths of you well, but from your overflow.” – Rumi

45. “Whatever purifies you is the correct road.” – Rumi

46. “I grow silent, dear soul, you speak.” – Rumi

47. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” – Rumi

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

49. “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.” – Rumi

50. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” – Rumi

51. “Forget safety, live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” – Rumi

52. “Stop acting so small, you are the universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi

53. “If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.” – Rumi

54. “When the light returns to it’s source, it take nothing of what it has illuminated.” – Rumi

55. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” – Rumi

56. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” – Rumi

57. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi

58. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you, don’t go back to sleep.” – Rumi

59. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.” – Rumi

60. “Look for the answer inside your question.” – Rumi

61. “Friends are enemies, and sometimes enemies friends.” – Rumi

62. “You show your worth by what you seek.” – Rumi

63. “The lion is most handsome when looking for food.” – Rumi

64. “The work is always inside you. The knot does not get untied by listening to the stories of other people.” – Rumi

65. “If your beloved has the life of a fire, step in now and burn along.” – Rumi

66. ” I am the ocean and it’s turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.” – Rumi

67. “The one I love is everywhere.” – Rumi

68. “Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.” – Rumi

69. “When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.” – Rumi

70. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull, of that which you truly love.” – Rumi

71. “I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.” – Rumi

72. “Let yourself be silently drawn to the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi

73. “There is a mood inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.” – Rumi

74. “A great silence overcomes me and I wonder whey I ever thought to use language.” – Rumi

75. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” – Rumi

76. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal.” – Rumi

77. “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” – Rumi

78. “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.” – Rumi

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

80. “I want to sing like the birds single. Not worrying about who hears or what they think.” – Rumi

81. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi

82. “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.” – Rumi

83. “When you go through a hard period. When everything seems to oppose you, when you feel like you cannot even bear one more minute, never give up. Because it is the time and place the course will divert.” – Rumi

84. “Your heart knows the way, run in that direction.” – Rumi

85. “When I am with you, we stay up all night. And when you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias and the difference between them.” – Rumi

86. “There are many ways to the divine, I have chosen the ways of song, dance and laughter.” – Rumi

87. “Reason is powerless in the expression of love.” – Rumi

88. “Let silence be the art you practice.” – Rumi

89. “Let go of your worries. Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted. Like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal, can be polished to a mirror like finish. what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference, the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.” – Rumi

90. “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” – Rumi

91. “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi

92. “There is a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears, and no longer frantic, begins to dance.” – Rumi

93. “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.” – Rumi

94. “When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.” – Rumi

95. “Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved, she is creative, not created.” – Rumi

96. “I am in you and I am you. No once can understand this until he has lost his mind.” – Rumi

97. “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.” – Rumi

98. “We are born of love, love is our mother.” – Rumi

99. “True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. If it is equal and pure without violent demonstrations. It is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” – Rumi

100. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi

101. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” – Rumi

102. “Every human being is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes from an unexpected visitor. Welcome and attend all of them. Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of it’s furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be clear you out  from some new delight.” – Rumi

103. “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.” – Rumi

104. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally to take a step without feet.” – Rumi

105. “Listen to silence, it has so much to say.” – Rumi

106. “A truth can walk naked, but a lie always needs to be dressed.” – Rumi

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

108. “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.” – Rumi

109. “Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence.” – Rumi

110. “If people misunderstand you, do not worry. It is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is, their own thoughts.” – Rumi

111. “So human beings are safe havens, be companions with them.” – Rumi

112. “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.” – Rumi

113. “The moment I first heard love, I gave up my soul, my heart and my eyes.” – Rumi

114. “Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.” – Rumi

115. “Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real Sufis just laugh, nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.” Rumi

116. “It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi

117. “I’ve been looking for a long time, for this thing called love. I’ve ridden comets across the sky, and I’ve looked below and above. Then one day, I looked inside myself and this is what I found. A golden sun residing there, beaming forth God’s light and sound.” – Rumi

118. “There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.” – Rumi

119. “I love you with neither my heart, nor with my mind. My heart might stop, my mind can forget. I love you with my soul because my soul never stops or forgets.” – Rumi

120. “Know that one day your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi

121. “Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.” – Rumi

122. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi

123. “Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets/ But they are not gone/” – Rumi

124. “Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart.” – Rumi

125. “Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.” – Rumi

126. “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.” – Rumi

127. “Everyone had been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi

128. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi

129. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will mirror be polished.” – Rumi

130. “Appear as you are. Be as you appear.” – Rumi

131. “That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.” – Rumi

132. “Those who don’t want to change, let them sleep.” – Rumi

133. “I’ve been a seeker and I a still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teachings of my soul.” – Rumi

134. “I closed my mouth and smoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” – Rumi

135. “In order to understand the dance, one must be skill. And in order to truly understand stillness, one must dance.” – Rumi

136. “A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union. Anyone can learn this dance, just listen to the music.” – Rumi

137. “The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.” – Rumi

138. “Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.” – Rumi

139. “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.” – Rumi

140. “The lion who breaks the enemy’s rank is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.” – Rumi

141. “Make peace with the universe, take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.” – Rumi

142. “If the form is transient, the essence is eternal.” – Rumi

143. “The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient. Until it is cooked.” – Rumi

144. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” – Rumi

145. “One who is really loved is the single object of her lover, the Alpha and Omega of his desires.” – Rumi

146. “When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.” – Rumi

147. “Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel. I am a carpenter of my own soul.” – Rumi

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

149. “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be grounded. Be crumbled so wildflowers will come up where you are.” – Rumi

150. “Don’t let them think that we’ve broken down, that we’ve cracked up, we merely dropped leaves for a further spring.” – Rumi

151. “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each of us has been sent a guide from beyond.” – Rumi

152. “Be silent! The heart speaks without tongues or lips.” – Rumi

153. “Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.” – Rumi

154. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” – Rumi

155. “Both light and shadow are the dance of love.” – Rumi

156. “Where gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” – Rumi

157. “Love is the endless ocean of God.” – Rumi

158. “Inside of you there’s an artist you don’t know about.” – Rumi

159. “Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself. Everything that you want you are already that.” – Rumi

160. “We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.” – Rumi

161. “Dance when you’re broken up. Dance if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” – Rumi

162. “If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.” – Rumi

163. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no separation.” – Rumi

164. “Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now!.” – Rumi

165. “Hindus and Turks, Greeks and Africans are all the same color in the grave.” – Rumi

166. “A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, diving or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. it is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! the universe turns differently when fire loves water.” – Rumi

167. “Be melting snow, wash yourself of yourself.” – Rumi

168. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself.” – Rumi

169. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being” – Rumi

170. “There is a sacredness in tears, they are not the mark of weakness, but of power.” – Rumi

171. “Do not be sad. For God sends hope in the darkest moments. The heaviest rans comes from the darkest clouds.” – Rumi

172. “The lamps are different, but the light is the same. One matter, one energy, one light, one light-mind, endless emanating all things.” – Rumi

173. “I once had a thousand desires, put in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.” – Rumi

174. “Gratitude is the wine of the soul. Go on, get drunk!.” – Rumi

175. “Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry. You are in truth the soul, of the soul of the soul.” – Rumi

176. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” – Rumi

177. “Sell your cleverness, and buy bewilderment.” – Rumi

178. “Love is the water of life, drink it down with heart and soul.” – Rumi

179. “Don’t worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side your are used to is better than the one to come?” – Rumi

180. “I know you are tired, but come this is the way.” – Rumi

181. “You are the root of heaven, the morning start, the bright moon, the house of endless love.” – Rumi

182. “The heart has it’s own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.” – Rumi

183. “You and I will be together until the universe dissolves.” – Rumi

184. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” – Rumi

185. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi

186. “Wold you become a pilgrim on the road to love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” – Rumi

187. “I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I choose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams. for in my dreams, you have not end.” – Rumi

188. “Do not listen with intent to reply, but with intent to understand.” – Rumi

189. “The one who has a good friend, doesn’t need any mirror.” – Rumi

190. “The prophets accept all agony and trust it for the water has never feared the fire.” – Rumi

191. “My story gets old in various ways, a romance, a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy.” – Rumi

192. “Snake’s poison is life to the snake, it is in relation to man that it means death.” – Rumi

193. “Before a flower can open in His rose garden, thousands of thorns come to pierce it.” – Rumi

194. “Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found everyone, myself as well.” – Rumi

195. “The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.” – Rumi

196. “Come, come whoever you are. Wander, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair, but a caravan of hope. Come even if you have broken your vows, a thousand times. Come yet again.” – Rumi

197. “Be silent. Only the hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart.” – Rumi

198. “If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn, if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.” – Rumi

199. “There is a force within you that gives you life. Seek that.” – Rumi

200. “Every midwife knows that not until a mothers womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born. Oh friend, there is a 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.” – Rumi

201. “Who could be so lucky? Who comes to the lake for water and sees the reflection of the moon.” – Rumi