Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

— Rumi

102. “You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?”

— Rumi

103. “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

104. “All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!”

— Rumi

105. “If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”

— Rumi

106. “There’s no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child’s play.”

— Rumi

107. “I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.”

— Rumi

108. “At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.”

— Rumi

109. “I am so mad with love that mad men say to me – be still!”

— Rumi

110. “Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”

— Rumi

111. “Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.”

— Rumi

112. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”

— Rumi

113. “I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”

— Rumi

114. “You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.”

— Rumi

115. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

— Rumi

116. “Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”

— Rumi

117. “Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

— Rumi

118. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

— Rumi

119. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

— Rumi

120. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”

— Rumi

121. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

— Rumi

122. “I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.”

— Rumi

123. “There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.”

— Rumi

124. “Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.”

— Rumi

125. “Live life as if its rigged in your favor.”

— Rumi

126. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

— Rumi

127. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”

— Rumi

128. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”

— Rumi

129. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”

— Rumi

130. “Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.”

— Rumi

131. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

— Rumi

132. “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don’t go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don’t go back to sleep!”

— Rumi

133. “I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”

— Rumi

134. “When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”

— Rumi

135. “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

136. “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”

— Rumi

137. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

— Rumi

138. “You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

— Rumi

139. “I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn’t find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn’t find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn’t find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.”

— Rumi

140. “All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”

— Rumi

141. “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”

— Rumi

142. “Try something different. Surrender.”

— Rumi

143. “In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE.”

— Rumi

144. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.”

— Rumi

145. “Appear as you are, Be as you appear.”

— Rumi

146. “Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.”

— Rumi

147. “If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You.”

— Rumi

148. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

149. “When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.”

— Rumi

150. “The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”

— Rumi