The Best Rumi Quotes

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!

Monthly US search volume for the words ‘Rumi Quotes’ | Source: SEM Rush

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.”

- Rumi

“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.”

- Rumi

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”

- Rumi

“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.”

- Rumi

“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”

- Rumi

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

- 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

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

- Rumi

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”

- Rumi

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

- Rumi

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

- Rumi

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

- Rumi

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”

- Rumi

“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.”

- Rumi

“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.”

- Rumi

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

- Rumi

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

- Rumi

“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.”

- Rumi

“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.”

- Rumi

“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.”

- Rumi

“Why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last….”

- Rumi

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

- Rumi

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

- Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

- Rumi

“Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”

- Rumi

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

- Rumi

“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.”

- Rumi

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”

- Rumi

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

- Rumi

“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”

- Rumi

“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

“ولتعلم ان العشق صامت تماما .. وانه ﻻ يوجد كلمات يمكنها وصفه”

- Rumi

“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”

- 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

“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”

- Rumi

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

- Rumi

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”

- Rumi

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

- Rumi

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

- Rumi

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

- Rumi

“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

- Rumi

“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”

- Rumi

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”

- Rumi

“Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that Exists”

- 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

“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.”

- Rumi

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