Everybody loves Rumi, and lucky us, he’s one of our own! The 13th century Persian poet, who was an Islamic dervish, a Sufi mystic and master of quotes is widely regarded as one of the greatest spiritual masters and poetical intellects. Born in 1207 AD, Rumi belonged to a family of learned theologians. Both his father and grandfather were influential and well-respected Islamic scholars.
Much of Rumi’s genius was in his ability to use life’s everyday circumstances to describe the spiritual world. His poems are immensely popular, especially among the Persian speakers of Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan, but this popularity has gone beyond national and ethnic borders. In the US alone, the phrase ‘Rumi Quotes‘ is searched for some 33,000+ times a day!
Given the immense popularity/interest in both learning about and quoting Rumi, we have compiled a comprehensive list of Rumi text and picture quotes for you to enjoy. The quotes are sorted by popularity so please do not hesitate to ‘Like’ specific Rumi quotes that resonate. And if we missed any awesome Rumi quotes (which we surely have), please include them in the comments section below so that we can add them to this list. Thanks and enjoy!
The Best Rumi Quotes
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
1407 Like(s)“Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.”
1201 Like(s)“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
1158 Like(s)“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
1141 Like(s)“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
1102 Like(s)“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.”
944 Like(s)“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”
906 Like(s)“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
896 Like(s)“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”
847 Like(s)“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
816 Like(s)“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
810 Like(s)“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
807 Like(s)“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
746 Like(s)“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
744 Like(s)“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
743 Like(s)“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing 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.”
651 Like(s)“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
650 Like(s)“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
621 Like(s)“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
601 Like(s)“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”
590 Like(s)“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”
578 Like(s)“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
572 Like(s)“Why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last….”
568 Like(s)“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
541 Like(s)“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
538 Like(s)“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
475 Like(s)“Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
453 Like(s)“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
417 Like(s)“I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.”
399 Like(s)“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
392 Like(s)“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”
375 Like(s)“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”
358 Like(s)“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
317 Like(s)“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
289 Like(s)“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
254 Like(s)“ولتعلم ان العشق صامت تماما .. وانه ﻻ يوجد كلمات يمكنها وصفه”
242 Like(s)“You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you”
202 Like(s)“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
199 Like(s)“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”
175 Like(s)“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
154 Like(s)“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
152 Like(s)“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
140 Like(s)“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
120 Like(s)“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
119 Like(s)“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
117 Like(s)“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
114 Like(s)“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
31 Like(s)“Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that Exists”
21 Like(s)“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.”
13 Like(s)“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.”
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