Famous Quotes of Rumi
Mike Ervin

Rumi, Rumi, Rumi.  One of the greats!  (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273). Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi, was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential figure in Sufism, and his thought and works loom large both in Persian literature and mystic poetry in general.

                       75 Quotes by Rumi

1. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
2. What you seek is seeking you.
3. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
4. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
5. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
6. Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
7. Try not to resist life’s changes. Let life flow through you.
8. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
9. Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
10. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
11. You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
12. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
13. As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
14. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
15. Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
16. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
17. There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
18. Dance until you shatter yourself.
19. The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.
20. Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation.
21. Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
22. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
23. Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.
24. Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
25. The moon stays bright when it does not avoid the night.
26. Let yourself become living poetry.
27. The very center of your heart is where life begins.
28. Love is the bridge between you and everything.
29. 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.
30. Travel brings power and love back into your life.
31. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
32. Ignore those that make you fearful and sad.
33. When you let go of who you are, you become what you might be.
34. The heart has its own language.
35. This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.
36. Listen with ears of tolerance. See through the eyes of compassion.
37. The lamps are different, but the Light is the same.
38. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
39. Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean.
40. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep.
41. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
42. Wherever ruin is, there is hope for a treasure.
43. Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy.
44. The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
45. If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
46. The soul is here for its own joy.
47. Everything in the universe is within you.
48. The cure for pain is in the pain.
49. Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.
50. When you seek love with all your heart, you shall find its echo in the universe.
51. We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
52. Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being.
53. Patience is not sitting and waiting. It is foreseeing.
54. Gratitude is the wine for the soul.
55. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall.
56. There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
57. The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself.
58. Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
59. In your light I learn how to love.
60. Keep breaking your heart until it opens.
61. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.
62. A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
63. Whoever brings me to see the beauty of the world is my friend.
64. Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
65. If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me.
66. Everyone has been made for some particular work.
67. Open your hands if you want to be held.
68. With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
69. The intelligent desire self-control. Children want candy.
70. Why wander from house to house looking for the treasure chest when it is buried in your own yard?
71. There is a field beyond right and wrong. I’ll meet you there.
72. Love is the water of life.
73. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
74. Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
75. When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Concluding Reflection

Rumi’s writings combine themes of divine love, spiritual transformation, humility, longing, and union with God. Although many modern quotations attributed to him circulate in simplified or paraphrased forms, the central message remains remarkably consistent: human beings are called beyond the confines of ego and fear into a deeper experience of love, beauty, gratitude, and spiritual awakening. His poetry continues to resonate across religious and cultural boundaries because it speaks to universal human desires for meaning, belonging, and transcendence.

Famous Quotes of Rumi

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