Rumi Quotes: The Wisdom and Insight of the Persian Poet

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

What you seek is seeking you. – Rumi

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

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

Respond to every call that excites your spirit. – Rumi

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

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. – Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. – Rumi

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. – Rumi

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. – Rumi

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

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. – Rumi

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. – Rumi

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? – Rumi

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

The wound is where the light enters you. – Rumi

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

Love is the bridge between you and everything. – Rumi

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi

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

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

The lion is most handsome when looking for food. – Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. – Rumi

Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi

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

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

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

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. – Rumi

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. – Rumi

In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. – Rumi

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. – Rumi

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

I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. – Rumi

Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there. – Rumi

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

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. – 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

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

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

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi

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

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

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

Do not seek water, get thirsty. It is said that without getting thirsty, it is impossible to find water. – Rumi

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. – Rumi

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

Don’t grieve, anything you lose comes around in another form. – Rumi

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