Maulana Jalaladim Mohammed, better known as Rumi was born in 1207 in Persia and was a poet, spiritual teacher, and Sufi theologian. He is considered one of the great pillars of Sufi culture. Rumi’s poems have influenced millions of people from all sorts of different backgrounds throughout the ages.
No matter your religion or belief, for sure, the words of this poet will enchant you. Check out our collection of beautiful quotes by Rumi.
What you seek is seeking you.
– Rumi
Rumi Quotes
1. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.” – Rumi
2. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi
3. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” – Rumi
4. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
5. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi
6. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi
7. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
8. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” – Rumi
9. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi
10. “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” – Rumi
Inspirational Rumi Quotes
11. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
12. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” – Rumi
13. “The cure for pain is in the pain.” – Rumi
14. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
15. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” – Rumi
16. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.” – Rumi
17. “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.” – Rumi
18. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” – Rumi
19. “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” – Rumi
20. Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. – Rumi
21. “If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.” – Rumi
22. “The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.” – Rumi
23. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” – Rumi
24. “Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi
25. “Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.” – Rumi
26. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” – Rumi
27. “Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.” – Rumi
28. “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.” – Rumi
29. “Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.” – Rumi
30. “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” – Rumi
31. “Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?” – Rumi
32. “Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.” – Rumi
33. “If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.” – Rumi
34. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” – Rumi
35. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” – Rumi
36. “The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.” – Rumi
37. “When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.” – Rumi
38. “Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.” – Rumi
39. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.” – Rumi
40. “Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.” – Rumi
41. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
42. “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.” – Rumi
43. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.” – Rumi
44. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
45. “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.” – Rumi
46. “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” – Rumi
47. “Let yourself become living poetry.” – Rumi
48. “Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.” – Rumi
49. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi
50. “Let silence take you to the core of life.” – Rumi
51. “When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” – Rumi
52. “Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.” – Rumi
53. “Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the light.” – Rumi
54. “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi
55. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.” – Rumi
56. “Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.” – Rumi
57. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” – Rumi
58. “Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi
59. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” – Rumi
60. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi
61. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” – Rumi
62. “The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a true human being.” – Rumi
63. “Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.” – Rumi
64. “Don’t dismiss the heart, even if it’s filled with sorrow. God’s treasures are buried in broken hearts.” – Rumi
65. “Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that’s why they have so much heartache and sorrow.” – Rumi
66. “Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own soul. Enter the ruins of your heart and learn the meaning of humility.” – Rumi
67. “To me, nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.” – Rumi
68. “I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.” – Rumi
69. “There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.” – Rumi
70. “Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.” – Rumi
71. “There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.” – Rumi
72. “Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.” – Rumi
73. “Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.” – Rumi
74. “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.” – Rumi
75. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” – Rumi
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