Rumi Quotes on Self Love
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.
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own legend.
I am not this hair, I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
What you seek is seeking you.
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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.
Don’t be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias! And the difference between them.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Why stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
Be empty of worrying. Think who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
The very center of your heart is where life begins.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
Be kind to yourself, so you can be kind to others.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.
Everything in the universe is within you.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Don’t be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
You were born with goodness and trust. You are born with ideals and dreams. You are born with greatness. You are born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.