378 Famous Quotes by Rumi about Life
1. "All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
2. "Appear as you are, be as you appear." (Be Yourself Quotes) Click to tweet
3. "Never lose hope, my heart. Miracles dwell in the invisible." (Best Quotes) Click to tweet
4. "From understanding comes love." (Best Quotes) Click to tweet
5. "Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now." (Calm Quotes) Click to tweet
6. "Yesterday i was clever, so i wanted to change the world. Today i am wise, so i am changing myself." (Change Quotes) Click to tweet
7. "Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart." (Courage Quotes) Click to tweet
8. "The wound is the place where the light enters you." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
9. "Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." (Family Quotes) Click to tweet
10. "Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on i’ll be mad." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
11. "Don’t move the way fear makes you move." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
12. "I know you’re tired but come, this is the way." (Hope Quotes) Click to tweet
13. "Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart." (Humanity Quotes) Click to tweet
14. "Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge." (Knowledge Quotes) Click to tweet
15. "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." (Life Quotes) Click to tweet
16. "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." (Life Quotes) Click to tweet
17. "This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
18. "The minute i heard my first love story i started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
19. "Love risks everything and asks for nothing." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
20. "Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
21. "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
22. "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." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
23. "Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
24. "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
25. "The minute i heard my first love story – i started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
26. "Come out of the circle of time. And into the circle of love." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
27. "You have within you more love than you could ever understand." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet
28. "There comes a time when nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love." (Love Yourself Quotes) Click to tweet
29. "Never lose hope, my heart. Miracles dwell in the invisible." (Never Give Up Quotes) Click to tweet
30. "Why should i be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom." (Positive Quotes) Click to tweet
31. "Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love." (Positive Quotes) Click to tweet
32. "Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
33. "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. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet 34. "Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
35. "Sorrow… 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 Quotes) Click to tweet
36. "Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another… it’s all praise, and it’s all right." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
37. "Be an empty page, untouched by words." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
38. "The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
39. "Silence gives answers." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
40. "We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust… the stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
41. "If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
42. "Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
43. "Every moment is made glorious by the light of love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
44. "Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
45. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
46. "May these vows and this marriage be blessed." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
47. "Why should i be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
48. "Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
49. "By god, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
50. "In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
51. "The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
52. "Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
53. "Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For i differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
54. "If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
55. "Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
56. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
57. "What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
58. "Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
59. "The whole universe is contained within a single human being-you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
60. "Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
61. "This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
62. "When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
63. "Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
64. "Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
65. "With every breath, i plant the seeds of devotion, i am a farmer of the heart." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
66. "What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
67. "Let yourself become living poetry." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
68. "Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
69. "Let your teacher be love itself." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
70. "I have found the heart and will never leave this house of light." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
71. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
72. "Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
73. "Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
74. "Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
75. "When i am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, i can’t go to sleep." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
76. "Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
77. "My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
78. "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 so many paradises are at the end of this path… be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet 79. "Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
80. "There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
81. "What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
82. "Travel brings power and love back into your life." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
83. "The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
84. "You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
85. "I have neither a soul nor a body, for i come from the very soul of all souls." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
86. "Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when i whisper in your ear?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
87. "Concentrate on the essence, concentrate on the light." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
88. "These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
89. "Life is balance of holding on and letting go." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
90. "When all your desires are distilled; you will cast just two votes – to love more, and be happy." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
91. "Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
92. "The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
93. "The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a true human being." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
94. "Joy lives concealed in grief." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
95. "Sit, be still, and listen." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
96. "If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
97. "A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
98. "Don’t dismiss the heart, even if it’s filled with sorrow. God’s treasures are buried in broken hearts." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
99. "Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
100. "Now be silent. Let the one who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
101. "Love is the bridge between you and everything." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
102. "All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
103. "How do i know who i am or where i am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
104. "Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
105. "Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
106. "Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
107. "I should be suspicious of what i want." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
108. "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
109. "Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
110. "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
111. "You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
112. "In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
113. "Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that’s why they have so much heartache and sorrow." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
114. "Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
115. "When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
116. "Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
117. "Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
118. "Let the beauty we love be what we do." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
119. "Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
120. "If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
121. "My soul is from elsewhere, i’m sure of that, and i intend to end up there." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
122. "My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and i will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
123. "Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
124. "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
125. "All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
126. "All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
127. "I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
128. "The source of now is here." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
129. "Inside any deep asking is the answering." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
130. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
131. "Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
132. "Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
133. "This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
134. "Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
135. "We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
136. "Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
137. "Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you’re looking at the light with infinite eyes." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
138. "Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
139. "Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
140. "Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
141. "Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
142. "Listen to the sound of waves within you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
143. "Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
144. "What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
145. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
146. "The message behind the words is the voice of the heart." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
147. "Whatever purifies you is the right path, i will not try to define it." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
148. "This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
149. "There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
150. "Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on i’ll be mad." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
151. "Thankfulness brings you to the place where the beloved lives." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
152. "Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
153. "I know you’re tired but come, this is the way." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
154. "Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
155. "Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
156. "I am a child whose teacher is love surely my master won’t let me grow to be a fool." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
157. "Love is the water of life, jump into this water." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
158. "Why, when god’s world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
159. "But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
160. "Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
161. "Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
162. "I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
163. "I have been a seeker and i still am, but i stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
164. "Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
165. "If all you can do is crawl, start crawling." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
166. "Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
167. "If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn’t a life." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
168. "Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
169. "To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
170. "My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
171. "The wound is the place where the light enters you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
172. "The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
173. "You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
174. "When i am silent, i fall into the place where everything is music." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
175. "Love risks everything and asks for nothing." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
176. "The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
177. "Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
178. "The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
179. "What you seek is seeking you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
180. "Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
181. "I have no companion but love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The soul calls from within me: ‘you, ignorant of the way of love, set me free." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
182. "As you start to walk on the way, the way appears." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
183. "Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
184. "If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see god in it. Those who are not in love with god will see only their own faces in it." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
185. "I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
186. "I searched for god and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only god." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
187. "When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
188. "Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
189. "My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don’t harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don’t teach what you do not know." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
190. "Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in god." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
191. "I am not this hair, i am not this skin, i am the soul that lives within." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
192. "Be with those who help your being." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
193. "There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
194. "You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
195. "Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
196. "Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
197. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
198. "If light is in your heart, you will find your way home." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
199. "The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
200. "Yesterday i was clever, so i wanted to change the world. Today i am wise, so i am changing myself." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
201. "A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union. Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
202. "Each moment contains a hundred messages from god." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
203. "It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
204. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
205. "If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
206. "Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
207. "Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
208. "Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
209. "Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
210. "Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
211. "Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
212. "Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
213. "The prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
214. "Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
215. "Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
216. "Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
217. "I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
218. "It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
219. "On what is fear: non-acceptance of uncertainty. If we accept that uncertainty, it becomes an adventure!" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
220. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
221. "There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
222. "Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
223. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
224. "Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
225. "Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
226. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet 227. "We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
228. "The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
229. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
230. "God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
231. "Every need brings what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
232. "Let silence take you to the core of life." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
233. "Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
234. "Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
235. "I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
236. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
237. "Start a huge, foolish project, like noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
238. "Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
239. "Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
240. "Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
241. "To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the lord. Only then will the mysteries of god fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
242. "This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when i stopped believing in myself did i come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘be more silent.’ die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet 243. "When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
244. "Only from the heart can you touch the sky." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
245. "Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
246. "When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
247. "A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
248. "Why should i be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
249. "Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
250. "The lion is most handsome when looking for food." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
251. "Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
252. "There is nothing i want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
253. "Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
254. "Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
255. "O, happy the soul that saw its own faults." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
256. "Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
257. "Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
258. "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." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
259. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
260. "Let silence be the art you practice." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
261. "Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
262. "Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
263. "I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then i lost my mind." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
264. "Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
265. "Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
266. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
267. "In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
268. "What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
269. "In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
270. "Dance until you shatter yourself." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
271. "Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
272. "There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
273. "Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
274. "Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
275. "My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
276. "All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
277. "Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
278. "Respond to every call that excites your spirit." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
279. "There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
280. "You have within you more love than you could ever understand." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
281. "I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
282. "This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
283. "Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
284. "We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
285. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
286. "Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
287. "Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
288. "Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For god has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
289. "If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the being who is everything." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
290. "Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
291. "What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
292. "Now i am sober and there’s only the hangover and the memory of love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
293. "If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
294. "If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
295. "Open your hands if you want to be held." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
296. "Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
297. "Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
298. "Patience is the key to joy." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
299. "Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
300. "There are many ways to the divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
301. "When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
302. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
303. "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
304. "The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
305. "Do good to the people for the sake of god or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your heart from the darkness of hate." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
306. "Shine like the whole universe is yours." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
307. "Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
308. "In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
309. "There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
310. "Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the soul." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
311. "Why are you knocking at every door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
312. "If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
313. "The soul is here for its own joy." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
314. "Either give me more wine or leave me alone." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
315. "That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
316. "When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
317. "Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
318. "There is a path from me to you that i am constantly looking for." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
319. "Clean out your ears, don’t listen for what you already know." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
320. "Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
321. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
322. "Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
323. "We are all the same… all the same… longing to find our way back… back to the one… back to the only one!" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
324. "When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
325. "When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
326. "Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
327. "Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
328. "Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, i’ll meet you there." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
329. "The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
330. "Touched. How did you get here? Close your eyes… and surrender!" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
331. "Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: we taste only sacredness." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
332. "Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
333. "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
334. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
335. "Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
336. "There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
337. "Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
338. "Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
339. "The universe and the light of the stars come through me." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
340. "One of the marvels of the world: the sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
341. "Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
342. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
343. "To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
344. "When will you begin that long journey into yourself?" (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
345. "The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
346. "Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
347. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
348. "Love is the water of life. Everything other than love for the most beautiful god is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar-eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the water of life." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
349. "Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
350. "Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the light shall swirl in a heap at your feet." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
351. "The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
352. "Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
353. "The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
354. "Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
355. "The minute i heard my first love story i started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
356. "You have forgotten the one who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
357. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
358. "Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
359. "Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
360. "Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
361. "On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
362. "The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
363. "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 Quotes) Click to tweet
364. "Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, divine mercy is shown." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
365. "On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
366. "Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
367. "Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
368. "With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
369. "Till man destroys “self” he is no true friend of god." (Rumi Quotes) Click to tweet
370. "When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
371. "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
372. "What you seek is seeking you." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
373. "Be like a tree. Let the dead leaves drop." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
374. "When i am silent, i have thunder hidden inside." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
375. "If all you can do is crawl, start crawling." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
376. "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
377. "If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?" (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
378. "Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
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