Quotes by Rumi

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. – Rumi

The wound is the place where the light enters you. – Rumi

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. – Rumi

Respond to every call that excites your spirit. – Rumi

Love is the bridge between you and everything. – Rumi

What you seek is seeking you. – Rumi

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. – Rumi

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

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen. – Rumi

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. – Rumi

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. – Rumi

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

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. – Rumi

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

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. – Rumi

Quotes by Rumi part 2

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

Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. – Rumi

Don’t be satisfied with the stories others have told you. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand? – Rumi

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. – Rumi

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun. – Rumi

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. – Rumi

Love is the water of life. Drink it down with heart and soul. – Rumi

Be your own lamp, shine your own light, and illuminate the path for others. – Rumi

Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. – Rumi

Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation. – Rumi

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. – Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. – Rumi

Let silence be the art you practice every day. – Rumi

You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. – Rumi

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

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. – Rumi

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

Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists. – Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. – Rumi

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. – Rumi

You were born with wings; why prefer to crawl through life? – Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what truly excites and challenges you, it will not lead you astray. – Rumi

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. – Rumi

Only from the heart can you touch the sky. – Rumi

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you. – Rumi

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