Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.”

— Rumi

52. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

— Rumi

53. “The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.”

— Rumi

54. “Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”

— Rumi

55. “The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”

— Rumi

56. “At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”

— Rumi

57. “The middle path is the way to wisdom.”

— Rumi

58. “A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.”

— Rumi

59. “If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.”

— Rumi

60. “Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind – Now that’s a blessing.”

— Rumi

61. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”

— Rumi

62. “If Your Eyes Are Opened, You’ll See The Things Worth Seeing.”

— Rumi

63. “O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all...”

— Rumi

64. “Silence gives answers.”

— Rumi

65. “Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”

— Rumi

66. “People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another.”

— Rumi

67. “Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”

— Rumi

68. “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”

— Rumi

69. “My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.”

— Rumi

70. “The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silent chess piece.”

— Rumi

71. “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

— Rumi

72. “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

73. “We are born of love. Love is our mother.”

— Rumi

74. “We are the mirror – As well as the face in it.”

— Rumi

75. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

— Rumi

76. “There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.”

— Rumi

77. “Nothing can nourish the soul but light.”

— Rumi

78. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”

— Rumi

79. “I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

— Rumi

80. “There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

— Rumi

81. “My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown.”

— Rumi

82. “Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company.”

— Rumi

83. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

— Rumi

84. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

— Rumi

85. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

— Rumi

86. “Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”

— Rumi

87. “Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.”

— Rumi

88. “That’s how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.”

— Rumi

89. “Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.”

— Rumi

90. “Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.”

— Rumi

91. “I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

— Rumi

92. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.”

— Rumi

93. “Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”

— Rumi

94. “Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.”

— Rumi

95. “Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.”

— Rumi

96. “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

— Rumi

97. “Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love’s glory is not a small thing.”

— Rumi

98. “You have been a prisoner of a little pond. I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come, merge with me, leave this world of ignorance.”

— Rumi

99. “Open your arms if you want the Beloved’s embrace.”

— Rumi

100. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

— Rumi