Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi
Rumi Quotes on Life
Rumi on life: 11 quotes, pulled from the QuotePlace Life collection and gathered here. Read them together and a theme emerges that the full author page can bury. About the author: Rumi (1207–1273) — Poet and mystic.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.Rumi
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.Rumi
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.Rumi
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.Rumi
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.Rumi
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.Rumi
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.Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.Rumi