The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.Rumi
Rumi Quotes
Rumi (Poet and mystic, 1207 – 1273). Below are 36 quotes by Rumi from QuotePlace, each as a portrait card.
Poet and mystic · 1207 – 1273
13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose Masnavi is among the most influential works of Islamic literature.
Quotes by Rumi
1.The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
2.Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
3.Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
4.Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
5.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.
6.What you seek is seeking you.
7.Love is the bridge between you and everything.
8.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
9.Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
10.Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
11.Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
12.Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
13.Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
14.Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
15.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.
16.Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
17.Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
18.Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
19.Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
20.Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
21.Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
22.The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
23.Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
24.Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
25.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.
26.When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
27.If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
28.Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.
29.How many flee from one calamity into another; how many leap from the snake towards the dragon.
30.Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
31.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
32.You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
33.Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
34.You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
35.The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
36.Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Rumi Quote Gallery
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.Rumi
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi
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.Rumi
What you seek is seeking you.Rumi
Love is the bridge between you and everything.Rumi
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.Rumi
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
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.Rumi
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
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.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
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.Rumi
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.Rumi
Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.Rumi
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the 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
When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?Rumi
Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.Rumi
How many flee from one calamity into another; how many leap from the snake towards the dragon.Rumi
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?Rumi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.Rumi
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?Rumi
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.Rumi
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.Rumi