Rumi quotes are a source of inspiration for all of us. His love quotes are a good way to understand love. His other quotes are also very inspiring. Especially his quotes related to life, beauty, friendship and nature are very popular even today.
So first we will know some things about the great Rumi.
Full Name : Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Nick Name : Mevlânâ/Mawlānā ( Our Master )
He was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
Born : 30 September 1207
Died : 17 December 1273
If you want to know more about the Great Rumi visit Wikipedia.
Now we will know about some famous quotes of Great Rumi.
“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
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
— Rumi
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
— Rumi
“Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.”
— Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
— Rumi
“By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.”
— Rumi
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
— Rumi
Rumi Quotes
1. “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” — Rumi
2. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” — Rumi
3. “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.” — Rumi
4. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” — Rumi
5. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.” — Rumi
6. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” — Rumi
7. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” — Rumi
8. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” — Rumi
9. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” — Rumi
10. “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.” — Rumi
11. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.” — Rumi
12. “Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.” — Rumi
13. “Open your hands if you want to be held.” — Rumi
14. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” — Rumi
15. “In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.” — Rumi
Best Rumi Quotes
16. “When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” — Rumi
17. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” — Rumi
18. “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
19. “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” — Rumi
20. “Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.” — Rumi
21. “What you seek is seeking you.” — Rumi
22. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” — Rumi
23. “Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.” — Rumi
24. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” — Rumi
25. “Patience is the key to joy.” — Rumi
26. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” — Rumi
27. “Let yourself become living poetry.” — Rumi
28. “The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.” — Rumi
29. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” — Rumi
30. “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.” — Rumi
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Famous Rumi Quotes
31. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” — Rumi
32. “The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.” — Rumi
33. “Let silence take you to the core of life.” — Rumi
34. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” — Rumi
35. “By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.” — Rumi
36. “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.” — Rumi
37. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” — Rumi
38. “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”— Rumi
39. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” — Rumi
40. “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.” — Rumi
41. “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.” — Rumi
42. “With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.” — Rumi
43. “Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.” — Rumi
44. “You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.” — Rumi
45. “Inside any deep asking is the answering.” — Rumi
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Quotes on Nature
Rumi Quotes on Nature
46. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” — Rumi
47. “There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.” — Rumi
48. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.” — Rumi
49. “How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.” — Rumi
50. “If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.” — Rumi
51. “Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.” — Rumi
52. “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.” — Rumi
53. “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
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Rumi Quotes on Love, Beauty and Lovers
54. “Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.” — Rumi
55. “Love risks everything and asks for nothing.” — Rumi
56. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” — Rumi
57. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” — Rumi
58. “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
59. “Let your teacher be love itself.” — Rumi
60. “Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists.”— Rumi
61. “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.” — Rumi
62. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” — Rumi
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Best Quotes on Love
Best Rumi Quotes on Love
63. “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
64. “You have within you more love than you could ever understand.” — Rumi
65. “When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.” — Rumi
66. “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
67. “This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.” — Rumi
68. “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 on Lovers
Rumi Quotes on Lovers
69. “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.” — Rumi
70. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” — Rumi
71. “There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds.” — Rumi
72. “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
73. “Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.” — Rumi
Quotes on Beauty
Rumi Quotes on Beauty
74. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” — Rumi
75. “The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.” — Rumi
76. “The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.” — Rumi
77. “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
78. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.” — Rumi
79. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” — Rumi
80. “Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.” — Rumi
Motivational Rumi Quotes
81. “All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.” — Rumi
82. “Till man destroys “self” he is no true friend of God.” — Rumi
83. “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
84. “Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.” — Rumi
85. “Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.” — Rumi
86. “If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.” — Rumi
87. “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
88. “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
89. “Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.” — Rumi
90. “The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.” — Rumi
Rumi Quotes on Life and Soul
91. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” — Rumi
92. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” — Rumi
93. “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
94. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.” — Rumi
95. “There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” — Rumi
96. “Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.” — Rumi
97. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” — Rumi
98. “Life is balance of holding on and letting go.” — Rumi
99. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” — Rumi
100. “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”— Rumi
101. “The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.” — Rumi
102. “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
Rumi Quotes on Silence
103. “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
104. “Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you’re looking at the light with infinite eyes.” — Rumi
105. “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
106. “Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.” — Rumi
107. “Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.” — Rumi
108. “Let silence take you to the core of life.” — Rumi
Rumi Quotes on Marriage
109. “May these vows and this marriage be blessed.” — Rumi
110. “If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.” — Rumi
Beautiful Rumi Quotes
111. “When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.” — Rumi
112. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.” — Rumi
113. “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
114. “I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.” — Rumi
115. “Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.” — Rumi
116. “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
Rumi Quotes on Friendship
117. “There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.” — Rumi
118. “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
119. “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
120. “If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.” — Rumi
Frequently ask Question
1. Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
2. Love is the bridge between you and everything.
3. Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.
4. Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, He was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Born : 30 September 1207, Died : 17 December 1273.
Only Breath is Rumi’s most famous poem.
“By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.” “Let silence take you to the core of life.”
“Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.”
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