Rumi Quotes
The thirteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose Masnavi and Divan overflow with love, longing and joy. Rumi is today one of the most read poets on Earth. Below are 30 of the most loved Rumi quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Reason is powerless in the expression of love.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
Try not to resist the changes that come your way.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal.
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
The garden of the world has no limits save in the mind.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
What you seek is seeking you.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
To love is to reach God.