Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

454. “You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

456. “Be with those who help your being. Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

459. “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

460. “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

461. “All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

463. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

469. “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

470. “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

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

— Rumi

472. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

475. “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

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

— Rumi

477. “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

478. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

483. “War, like children’s fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.”

— Rumi

484. “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

485. “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

486. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

490. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

495. “This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

497. “Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don’t mind that you’ve been given a dirty cup.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

499. “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

500. “O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.”

— Rumi