Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.”

— Rumi

452. “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.”

— Rumi

453. “Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.”

— Rumi

454. “People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.”

— Rumi

455. “My longing for you keeps me in this moment. My passion gives me courage.”

— Rumi

456. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

— Rumi

457. “If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.”

— Rumi

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458. “To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.”

— Rumi

459. “Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.”

— Rumi

460. “I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.”

— Rumi

461. “Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.”

— Rumi

462. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”

— Rumi

463. “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.”

— Rumi

464. “I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.”

— Rumi

465. “Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.”

— Rumi

466. “I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”

— Rumi

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467. “Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.”

— Rumi

468. “Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.”

— Rumi

469. “I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself.”

— Rumi

470. “Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home.”

— Rumi

471. “I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.”

— Rumi

472. “Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself.”

— Rumi

473. “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”

— Rumi

474. “Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.”

— Rumi

475. “Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.”

— Rumi

476. “How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”

— Rumi

477. “I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”

— Rumi

478. “I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.”

— Rumi

479. “Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.”

— Rumi

480. “Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls.”

— Rumi

481. “You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”

— Rumi

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482. “The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.”

— Rumi

483. “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

484. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”

— Rumi

485. “You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”

— Rumi

486. “What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?”

— Rumi

487. “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”

— Rumi

488. “Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”

— Rumi

489. “Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.”

— Rumi

490. “War, like children’s fights, is meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.”

— Rumi

491. “Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.”

— Rumi

492. “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.”

— Rumi

493. “We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.”

— Rumi

494. “Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness are the envy of angels and its courage even keeps devils away?”

— Rumi

495. “If you see Two in One – I only see One in Two.”

— Rumi

496. “All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.”

— Rumi

497. “Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.”

— Rumi

498. “Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.”

— Rumi

499. “A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.”

— Rumi

500. “Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.”

— Rumi