Rumi Quotes

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."

"Love is the whole thing."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"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."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

"What you seek is seeking you."

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind."

"Reason is powerless in the expression of Love."

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."

"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."

"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."

"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being."

"A life without love is a waste. Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love? Don't ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn't need any definitions."

"This human being is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival — a joy, a depression, a meanness — comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all."

"Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love."

"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?"

"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love."

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen."

"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."

"I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside."

"Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West."

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."

"Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge."

"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle."

"Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune. Every success depends upon focusing the heart."

"Either give me more wine or leave me alone."

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."

"Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world."

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

"When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."

"I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within."

"Travel brings power and love back into your life."

"Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there."

"Knock, and He'll open the door. Vanish, and He'll make you shine like the sun."

"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."

"The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore."

"Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."

"Be full of sorrow, that you may become full of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter."

"Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end."

"When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish."

"The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen."

"You are a divine branch of God. If the spiritual eyes open, the universe can be seen in your own heart."

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

"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step."

"Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies."

"Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses."