“Past and Future veil god from our sight. Set both of them on fire.” – Rumi
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop” – Rumi
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi
“Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.”- Rumi
“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Half-heartedness does not reach into majesty.”- Rumi
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”- Rumi
“Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”- Rumi
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”- Rumi
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”- Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”- Rumi
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”- Rumi
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”- Rumi
“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
“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
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”- Rumi
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love”- Rumi
“What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”- Rumi
“Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”- Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”- Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”- Rumi
“Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”- Rumi
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.”- Rumi
Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.- Rumi
“Set yourself on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”- Rumi
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”- Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”- Rumi
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”- Rumi
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”- Rumi
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”- Rumi
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”- Rumi
“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”- Rumi
“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”- Rumi
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”- Rumi
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”- Rumi
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”- Rumi
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”- Rumi
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”- Rumi
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”- Rumi
“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
“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”- Rumi
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”- Rumi
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”- Rumi
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”- Rumi
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”- Rumi
“People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.- Rumi
“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!- Rumi
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”- Rumi
“Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”- Rumi
“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
“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”- Rumi
“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”- Rumi
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
“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
“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.”- Rumi
“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”- Rumi
“I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”- Rumi
“The cure for pain is in the pain.”- Rumi
“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”- Rumi
“Beauty surrounds us.”- Rumi
“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”- Rumi
“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”- Rumi
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”- Rumi
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”- Rumi
“Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”- Rumi
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”- Rumi
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”- Rumi
“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”- Rumi
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”- Rumi
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”- Rumi
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”- Rumi
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come , come.”- Rumi
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”- Rumi
“Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they’re given wings.”- Rumi
“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”- Rumi
“The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”- Rumi
“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”- Rumi
“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
“You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!”- Rumi
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, the door is round and open don’t go back to sleep!” – Rumi
“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” ― Rumi
“You were born with potential.- Rumi
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
“Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.”- Rumi
Be silent, only the Hand of God Can remove the burdens of your heart.- Rumi
My Soul is my guide.- Rumi
Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me with your inspiration. So that I may see mine.- Rumi
In tears come laughter concealed. Seek the treasure beneath the ruins.- Rumi
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.- Rumi
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
As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror you get cleaner and cleaner.- Rumi
Maybe you are searching among the branches for only what appears in the roots?- Rumi
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.- Rumi
Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.- Rumi
To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.- Rumi
Now be silent. Let the One who creates words speak. He made the door, He made the lock, He also made the key.- Rumi
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.- Rumi
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.- Rumi
If you find me not within you, you will never find me for, I have been with you, from the beginning of me.- Rumi
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.- Rumi
No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your love to everybody.- Rumi
Your love has made me sure I am ready to forsake this worldly life and surrender to the magnificence of your being.- Rumi
By Allah! I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in the mountains and the desert.- Rumi
The lover is a king above all kings, unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden crown.- Rumi
For kindness has the power to transform sworn enemies into firm friends.- Rumi
Lose yourself. Lose yourself. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.- Rumi
The temple of love is not love itself. True love is the treasure, not the walls around it.- Rumi
Don’t look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of you quest…- Rumi
The inner consciousness of the saint is the true mosque all should worship, God lives there.- Rumi
When you see my funeral, don’t say, “Parting and separation!” Since for me, that is the time for union and meeting God.- Rumi
Love & imagination are magicians who create an image of the Beloved in your mind with which you share your secret intimate moments.- Rumi
Do you want yourself to be pure of defect? Then look toward him who isn’t ashamed or afraid of speaking the truth.- Rumi
We and our existences are really non-existence; thou art the absolute being which manifests the perishable.- Rumi
For would the sun not wander away in every night? How the world could at every morning be lighted up?- Rumi
When in love, body, mind, heart & soul don’t exist. Become this, fall in love, and you will not be separated again. – Rumi
I once had a thousand desires but in my one desire to know you all else melted away.- Rumi
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.- Rumi
Open your hands if you want to be held.- Rumi
Go find yourself first so you can also find me.- Rumi