Rumi Quotes
Who is Rumi And What Did He Do?
Rumi is referred to as the greatest Sufi mystic, law professor, theologian, and poet in the Persian Language and one of the most widely read poets in America. Rumi’s full name was originally Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi. He is popularly known as “Rumi”, an Arabic name which translates to “Roman”.
Rumi was one of the greatest medieval poets of the first rank in league with Shakespeare etc. He was also a devout Sunni Muslim, cleric, and scholar.
As a poet, he specialized in mystical poetry; his works possessed diverse qualities including originality, philosophical depths, etc, and centered on different subject matters including the human condition, love, morality, and religion.
He was also a philosopher and cleric who favored Sufism( a mystical approach to Islam that emphasizes intimate relationship with God and a path of personal spiritual experience) as against strict Islamic doctrines.
He was a traditional religious teacher until the age of 37 when he met a Muslim by the name Shams Tabrizi who changed the course of his life. Shams changed the course of his life and is not only regarded as Rumi’s intimate friend but his spiritual mentor and the inspiration behind most of his poems.
Why Is Rumi So Popular?
Rumi is popular because he was one of the greatest spiritual masters, Persian poets, and philosophers. His popularity is also due to his works which convey wisdom and deep-rooted truth, through the use of the poetic genre and its elements to express deep universal ideas in simple words.
What Is Rumi Philosophy?
As a philosopher, his subject was Sufism. Sufism is a spiritual discipline of Islam that’s peaceful, humanistic, flexible, and non-violent. He believed in the use of music, poetry, and dance as a path to encounter God.
He believed in the sanctity of human lives and as a result remained a vegetarian and even abstained from sacrificing animals either as a religious practice or for food.
“Look at all animals as you look at humans” is one of his sayings that portrayed this belief.
Rumi Inspirational Quotes
These inspirational quotes by Rumi will not just hold your attention but will motivate and inspire you to achieve big goals.
1. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion” – Rumi
2. “What you seek is seeking you” – Rumi
3. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form” – Rumi
4. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” – Rumi
5. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth” – Rumi
6. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees” – Rumi
7. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom” – Rumi
8. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death” – Rumi
9. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?” – Rumi
10. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you” – Rumi
11. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray” – Rumi
12. “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are” – Rumi
13. “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers we will come up where you are” – Rumi
14. “Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape” – Rumi
15. “When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be” – Rumi
16. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor” – Rumi
17. “If everything around seems dark, look again you may be light” – Rumi
18. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
19. “The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.” – Rumi
20. “Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi
21. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.” – Rumi
22. “Know that one day, your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi
23. “There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.” – Rumi
24. “Shine like the universe is yours.” – Rumi
25. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” – Rumi
26. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” – Rumi
27. “Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.” – Rumi
28. “Within tears, find hidden laughter.” – Rumi
29. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi
30. “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?” – Rumi
31. “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” – Rumi
32. “Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.” – Rumi
33. “There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.” – Rumi
34. “Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.” – Rumi
35. “Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.” – Rumi
36. “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.” – Rumi
37. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi
38. “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” – Rumi
39. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” – Rumi
40. “You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.” – Rumi
41. “That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.” – Rumi
42. “It is your light that lights the worlds.” – Rumi
43. “Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.” – Rumi
44. “There is an invisible within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.” – Rumi
45. “When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
46. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi
47. “Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking” – Rumi
48. “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” – Rumi
49. “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop” – Rumi
50. “The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be quiet and listen” – Rumi
51. “You have seen my descent, now watch my rising” – Rumi
52. “Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset” – Rumi
53. “Your body is woven from the light of heaven” – Rumi
54. “Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life” – Rumi
55. “No one can take your place in existence or absence” – Rumi
56. “Don’t tell of suffering, talk of nothing but blessings” – Rumi
57. “What hurts you, blesses you” – Rumi
58. “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night” – Rumi
59. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place” – Rumi
60. “Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them” – Rumi
61. “The silence and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away” – Rumi
62. “There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine” – Rumi
63. “These pains you feel are Messengers. Listen to them” – Rumi
64. “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs” – Rumi
65. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place” – Rumi
66. “Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.” – Rumi
67. “You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?” – Rumi
68. “When you go through a hard period When everything seems to oppose you… When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!” – Rumi
69. “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
70. “But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.” – Rumi
71. “Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.” – Rumi
72. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” – Rumi
73. “Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with a new face every day.” – Rumi
74. “Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must, first of all, destroy the old one.” – Rumi
75. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” – Rumi
76. “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.” – Rumi
77. “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it.” – Rumi
78. “Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and him” – Rumi
79. “A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle” – Rumi
80. “Do not look back. No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, you will miss the moment” – Rumi
81. “Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a Divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.” – Rumi
82. “Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but many paradises are at the need of this path” – Rumi
83. “Although you appear in earthly form your essence is pure consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of divine light” – Rumi
84. “You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t your own worth” – Rumi
85. “Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the soul” – Rumi
86. “From the moment of your birth a ladder was placed before you to help you escape” – Rumi
87. “And don’t think the garden loses it’s ectasy in winter, it’s quiet but the roots are down there riotous” – Rumi
88. “Being a candle is not easy; in order to give light one must first burn” – Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Love
These are Rumi quotes about love which gives wisdom about the nature, importance and qualities of true love. Enjoy!
1. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi
2. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” ― Rumi
3. “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
4. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” ― Rumi
5. “Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.” ― Rumi
6. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi
7. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” ― Rumi
8. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi
9. “You have within you more love than you could ever understand.” – Rumi
10. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” ― Rumi
11. “Be certain in the religion of Love there are no believers or unbelievers. Love embraces all.” – Rumi
12. “This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.” – Rumi
13. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” ― Rumi
14. “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
15. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi
16. “You have within you more love than you could ever understand.” – Rumi
17. “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
18. “Love is the religion, and the universe is the book.” – Rumi
19. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” – Rumi
20. “Through Love, all that is bitter will be sweet, through Love all that is copper will be gold, through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.” – Rumi
21. “I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me and I became fierce like a lion, them tender like the evening star” – Rumi
22. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do” – Rumi
23. “Listen with the ear of tolerance! See-through the eyes of compassion. Speak with the language of love”- Rumi
24. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky” – Rumi
25. “Love is a River. Drink from it” – Rumi
26. “If the house of the world is dark, love will find a way to create windows”- Rumi
27. “Come out from the circle of time into the circle of love” – Rumi
28. “Love is the sea when intellect drowns”- Rumi
29. “To love is to reach God” – Rumi
30. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces” – Rumi
31. “If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn’t a life”- Rumi
32. “A heart filled with love is like a phoenix no cage can imprison” – Rumi
33. “Gamble everything for love if you’re a true human being”- Rumi
34. “Be wild and crazy and drunk with love, if you are too careful, love will not find you”- Rumi
35. “Go my friend. Bestow your love even on your enemies. If you touch their hearts with love, what do you think will happen?”- Rumi
36. “Everything has to do with loving and not loving” – Rumi
37. “Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest Earth”- Rumi
38. “Be drunk with love for love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of love”- Rumi
39. “I am so mad with love that mad men say to me- be still! – Rumi
40. “When you seek love with all your heart, you shall find it’s echoes in the universe”- Rumi
41. “A lover’s life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing a heart”- Rumi
42. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction”- Rumi
43. “If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself” – Rumi
44. “Let your teacher be love itself”- Rumi
45. “Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live”- Rumi
46. “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love” – Rumi
47. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor, hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out”- Rumi
48. “Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence”- Rumi
49. “Love risks everything and asks for nothing”- Rumi
50. “On the path of love, we are neither masters or the owners of our life. We are only a brush in the hand of the painter”- Rumi
51. “Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love”- Rumi
52. “Every moment is made glorious by the light of love” – Rumi
53. “Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven”- Rumi
54. “In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don’t run away from this dying. Whoever’s not killed for love is dead meat.”- Rumi
55. “Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love”- Rumi
56. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” – Rumi
57. “Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.”- Rumi
58. “If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”- Rumi
59. “Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”- Rumi
60. “Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.”- Rumi
61. “A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love’s presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.” – Rumi
62. “I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.” – Rumi
63. “There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.” – Rumi
64. “Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.” – Rumi
65. “Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don’t be afraid to use one.” – Rumi
66. “This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.” – Rumi
67. “Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you… This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.” – Rumi
68. “Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.” – Rumi
69. “In the science of love you will find the spark of life”- Rumi
70. “Your soul is so close to mine that what you dream, I know. I know everything you think of; your heart is so close to mine”- Rumi
71. “Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.” – Rumi
72. “You will learn by reading, But you will understand with LOVE.” – Rumi
73. “You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don’t be without love, so you won’t feel dead. Die in love and stay alive forever.” – Rumi
74. “You cannot hide love, Love will get on its way, To the heart of someone you love, Far or near, it goes home, To where it belongs, To the heart of lovers” – Rumi
75. “With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?” – Rumi
76. “To Love is to be God. Never will a lover’s chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover’s robe be touched by mortals. Never will a lover’s body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.” – Rumi
77. “This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.” – Rumi
78. “The way you make love is the way God will be with you.” – Rumi
79. “The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.” – Rumi
80. “Love isn’t the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don’t ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.” – Rumi
81. “Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.” – Rumi
82. “Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons. On this treacherous” – Rumi
83. “Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome’s passionate murmur.” – Rumi
84. “Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!” – Rumi
85. “If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.” – Rumi
86. “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 light becomes this art.” – Rumi
87. “I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come ’round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you’ve just left. Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit when I lean into your space and kiss you. I want to know the joy of how you whisper ‘more.’” – Rumi
88. “I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.” – Rumi
89. “However much we describe and explain love when we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.” – Rumi
90. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
91. “Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer.” – Rumi
92. “At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.” – Rumi
93. “A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine 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
94. “When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit” – Rumi
95. “Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite love.” – Rumi
96. “If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.” – Rumi
97. “Now I am sober and there’s only the hangover and the memory of love.” – Rumi
98. “You are the essence of the essence. The intoxication of Love, I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart!” – Rumi
99. “I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God and afraid of God to call it divine” – Rumi
100. “Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.” – Rumi
Rumi Quotes On Silence
Sometimes words are not always enough to express emotions or thoughts, Rumi emphasizes the need to be quiet in a world where everyone speaks without listening to other.
1. “Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.” – Rumi
2. “Let silence take you to the core of life” – Rumi
3. “This silence, this moment, if it’s genuinely inside you brings you to the core of life” – Rumi
4. “Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song”
5. “Silence gives answers” – Rumi
6. “Ground yourself, strip yourself down, to blind loving silence” – Rumi
7. “In silence there is eloquence, stop weaving and see how the pattern improves”
8. “In the silence of love, you will find the spark of life” – Rumi
9. “Carry your baggage towards silence when you seek the signs of the way” – Rumi
10. “Keep silent because the world of silence is a vast fullness” – Rumi
11. “Move outside the tangle of fear- thinking. Live in silence” – Rumi
12. “There is a place where words are born of silence” – Rumi
13. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear” – Rumi
14. “Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.” – Rumi
15. “Silence should be the art you practice” – Rumi
16. “I choose to love you in silence for in silence I find no rejection” – Rumi
17. “Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into it’s void, a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear” – Rumi
18. “It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder” – Rumi
19. “This silence, this moment, If it’s genuinely inside you, brings you what you need” – Rumi
20. “In silence, there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves” – Rumi
21. “Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive.” – Rumi
22. “Let silence take you to the core of life.” – Rumi
23. “Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!” – Rumi
24. “Sit, be still, and listen” – Rumi
25. “Be an empty page, untouched by words.” – Rumi
26. “Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.” – Rumi
27. “When I am silent, I have a thunder hidden inside” – Rumi
28. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways” – Rumi
29. “Speak a little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise” – Rumi
30. “A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower” – Rumi
31. “I will be waiting here. For your silence to break, for your soul to shake, for your love to wake.” – Rumi
32. “Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song” – Rumi
33. “All is known in the sacredness of silence.” – Rumi
34. “There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.” – Rumi
35. “This is always how it is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language” – Rumi
36. “I want that love that is the silence of eternity” – Rumi
37. “In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summon. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there” – Rumi
38. “Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you’re looking at the light with infinite eyes” – Rumi
39. “Let silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe” – Rumi
40. “But learn this custom from the flower; silence your tongue” – Rumi
41. “My soul sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?” – Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Children
Here is a short collection of Rumi quotes about children that will broaden your horizon about children.
1. “When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.” – Rumi
2. “The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.” – Rumi
3. “All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.” – Rumi
4. “I am a child whose teacher is love surely my master won’t let me grow to be a fool.” – Rumi
5. “What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?” – Rumi
6. ”To me, nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.”-Rumi
Rumi Quotes On Beauty
Beauty isn’t just seen in the physical features, but is all around us. In nature, the smile of another and kind gestures. Enjoy these Rumi quotes on beauty.
1. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” – Rumi
2. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
3. “Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.” – Rumi
4. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” – Rumi
5. “Everything is made beautiful and fair and lovely for the eye of one who sees” – Rumi
6. “Beauty surrounds us but usually we need to be walking in a garden to see it” – Rumi
7. “By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.” – Rumi
8. “You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?” – Rumi
9. “Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty” – Rumi
10. “That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart and made it a hundred times more beautiful” – Rumi
11. “Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.” – Rumi
Rumi Quotes On Friendship
Like a popular adage says “Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are”. This proverb emphasizes the impact of friends in our lives.
There are friends who stick closer than brothers, hope these Rumi quotes on friendship makes you see the need to cherish and appreciate the true friends in your life.
1. “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” – Rumi
2. “Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.” – Rumi
3. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” – Rumi
4. “Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.” – Rumi
5. “Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.” – Rumi
6. “Be with those who help your being.” – Rumi
7. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” – Rumi
8. “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi
9. “Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.” – Rumi
10. “Open your hands if you want to be held” – Rumi
11. “Be with those who help your being” – Rumi
12. “The friend is at the door. You are the lock the key fits” – Rumi
13. “If you look for a friend who is faultless, you’ll be friendless” – Rumi
14. “Some humans are safe havens. Be companions with them” – Rumi
15. “A generous friend gives life for a friend, let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another” – Rumi
16. “Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends” – Rumi
17. “Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.” – Rumi
18. “Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend” – Rumi
19. “After that one moment with that glorious friend you become loving, radiant and ectastic” – Rumi
20. “True Friendship is born out of love and is the water of life” – Rumi
21. “There is nothing that I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves” – Rumi
22. “How beautiful a day can be when friendship touches it” – Rumi
23. “Friends are flowers in the garden of the heart” – Rumi
24. “My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you.” – Rumi
25. “Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.” – Rumi
26. “Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.” – Rumi
27. “Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.” – Rumi
28. “A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.” – Rumi
Rumi Poetry
1. “You appear like the moon and make me aware of love” – Rumi
2. “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world” – Rumi
3. “You call out, I am the lover, But these are mere words. If you see lover and Beloved as two, you either have double vision, or you can’t count.” – Rumi
4. “A woman is a beam of the divine light she is not the being whom sensual desire takes as it’s the object
she is a creator it should be said she is not a creature she is infinite love can find all this” – Rumi
5. “I came with many knots in my heart, like the magician’s rope. You undid them all at once. I see now the splendor of the student and that of the teacher’s art. Love and this body sit inside your presence, one demolished the other drunk.” – Rumi
6. “Love is neither a tale nor a game. Love is such a powerful torrent that no one can stand in front of it. Love is the flame which, when it blazes, consumes everything other than the Beloved” – Rumi
7. “With passion pray. With passion make love.With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?” – Rumi
8. “OH HAPPY DAY when in your presence, my ruler, I shall die! When near the sugar-treasure melting like sugar I shall die!” – Rumi
9. “First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you” – Rumi
10. “What else can I say? You will only hear what you are ready to hear. Don’t nod your head, Don’t try to fool me— the truth of what you see is written all over your face!” – Rumi
11. “What else can I say? You will only hear what you are ready to hear. Don’t nod your head,
Don’t try to fool me— the truth of what you see is written all over your face!” – Rumi
12. “My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like.
A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.” – Rumi
13. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober.” – Rumi
14. “Don’t run around this world looking for a hole to hide in. There are wild beasts in every cave!
If you live with mice, the cat claws will find you.” – Rumi
15. ”You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”- Rumi
16. “When the soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted.” – Rumi
17. “When you hear a dirty story wash your ears. When you see ugly stuff wash your eyes.
When you get bad thoughts to wash your mind. and Keep your feet muddy” – Rumi
18. “I swear, since seeing Your face, the whole world is fraud and fantasy The garden is bewildered as to what is a leaf or blossom. The distracted birds can’t distinguish the birdseed from the snare.” – Rumi
19. “First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.” – Rumi
20. “Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.” – Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Happiness
One of the choices we have is that of being able to control and influence our emotions. The world may be a rough place, but you have the ability to choose what you make of the situations you go through.
These Rumi quotes about happiness will give you more reason to choose happiness daily.
1. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom” – Rumi
2. “Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.” – Rumi
3. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.” – Rumi
4. “Joy lives concealed in grief.” – Rumi
5. “Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.” – Rumi
6. “Oh! Joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.” – Rumi
7. “My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.” – Rumi
8. “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
9. “When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this, I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.” – Rumi
10. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.” – Rumi
11. “Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.” – Rumi
12. “Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.” – Rumi
13. “Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.” – Rumi
14. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.” – Rumi
15. “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
16. “Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.” – Rumi
17. “Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness” – Rumi
18. “If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing is taken away” – Rumi
19. “O, happy the soul that saw it’s own faults” – Rumi
20. “Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.” – Rumi
21. “No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.” – Rumi
22. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Death
We are mere mortals with bodies that withers like the wild flowers but eternal souls. Death is inevitable but then what is dead may never die. Ponder on these quotes and make a decision to live your life on Earth to the fullest
1. “I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing.” – Rumi
2. “This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.” – Rumi
3. “This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.” – Rumi
4. “At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.” – Rumi
5. “I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?” – Rumi
6. “Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.” – Rumi
7. “I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.” – Rumi
8. “The world is a playground, and death is the night.” – Rumi
9. “Our death is our wedding with eternity.” – Rumi
10. “Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.” – Rumi
11. “Childhood, youth, and maturity, and now old age. Every guest agrees to stay
three days, no more. Master, you told me to remind you. Time to go.” – Rumi
12. “On the day I die, when I’m being carried toward the grave, don’t weep. Don’t say, He’s gone! He’s gone. Death has nothing to do with going away. The sunsets and the moon sets, but they’re not gone.
Death is a coming together” – Rumi
13. “You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?” – Rumi
14. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation” – Rumi
15. “Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east” – Rumi
16. “I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life” – Rumi
17. “Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What steikes the oyster shell does not damage the Pearl” – Rumi
18. “The world is a playground and death is the night” – Rumi
19. “Our death is our wedding with eternity’ – Rumi
20. “When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.” – Rumi
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