Rumi, also known by his real name Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, was a great Persian poet, Muslim philosopher, Sufi mystic, and Hanafi faqih who lived in the 13th century. He passed away in Konya, Turkey, on December 17, 1273, having been born on September 30, 1207, in the Afghan province of Balkh. He was given the appellation Mevlana, Mewlana, or Mevlevi, which means (our master or my master). His thoughts on life, love, Sufism, and the secrets of our cosmos are beloved by many, and he is revered as a great poet and spiritual master. These top Rumi quotes will change the way you think about life, love, and the universe as a whole.

Famous Rumi Quotes

1. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
2. “And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
3. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
4. “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.” 
5. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”
6. “Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”
7. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”
8. “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
9. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
10. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
11. “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.”
12. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
13. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
14. “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”
15. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
16. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
17. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
18. “If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.” 
19. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
20. “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
21. “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
22. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
23. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
24. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
25. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
26. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
27. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
28. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”
29. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
30. “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
31. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
32. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
33. “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”
34. “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
35. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
36.  “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
37. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”
38. “There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I’ll meet you there.”
39. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
40. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
41. “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
42. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”
43. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
44. “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”
45. “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
46. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
47.  “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
48. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
49. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
50. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
51. These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Short Rumi Quotes

1. “Be an empty page, untouched by words.”
2. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”
3. “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”
4. “Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”
5. “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
6. “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.”
7. “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”
8. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
9. “If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
10. “Let yourself become living poetry.”
11. “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
12. “Patience is the key to joy.”
13. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
14. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
15. “Sit, be still, and listen.”
16. “The source of now is here.”
17. “The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.”
18. “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
19. “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
20. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”
21. “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”

Inspirational Rumi Quotes

1. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
2. “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it.”
3. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
4. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
5. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
6. “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
7. “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.”
8. Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
9. “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.”
10. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
11. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
12. “The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.”
13. “The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.”
14. “There is a life force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.”
15. We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
16. “When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
17. “Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.”
18. “Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.”
19. “With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.”
20. “Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.”
21. “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
22. “You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.”

Funny Rumi Quotes

1. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually, we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
2. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
3. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
4. “I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”
5. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
6. “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved.”

Rumi Quotes on Wisdom

1. “All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”
2. “Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything.”
3. “Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
4. “Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.”
5. “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
6. “The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.”
7. “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
8. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
9. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
10. “Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.”
11. “The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.”
12. Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
13. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Rumi Quotes on Love

1. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
2. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
3. “Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.”
4. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
5. “Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.”
6. “Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.”
7. “I am in you and I am you. No one can understand this until he has lost his mind.”
8. “If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.”
9. “If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”
10. “Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.”
11. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”
12. “Let your teacher be love itself.”
13. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
14. “Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence.”
15. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”
16. “Love risks everything and asks for nothing.”
17. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
18. “On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.”
19. “The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
20. “This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.”
21. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
22. “Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.”
    “Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
23. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
24. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.”
25. “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 Quotes on Life

1. “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
2. “This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.”
3. “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.”
4. “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
5. “The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.”
6. “The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”
7. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
8. “Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”
9. “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.”
10. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
11. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
12. “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.”
13. “Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”
14. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
15. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
16. “And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
17. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
    There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
    You feel it, don’t you”
18. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
19. “The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
20. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
21. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
22. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
23. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
24. “Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.”
25. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
26. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
27. “What you seek is seeking you.”
28. “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.”

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