Rumi Life Quotes
What did Rumi have to say about life? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Here are 18 of the best Rumi life quotes, drawn from our full Rumi collection.
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.
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.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.