Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.”

— Rumi

153. “Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

— Rumi

154. “You show your worth by what you seek.”

— Rumi

155. “Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.”

— Rumi

156. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

— Rumi

157. “Our death is our wedding with eternity.”

— Rumi

158. “Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.”

— Rumi

159. “There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.”

— Rumi

160. “You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love.”

— Rumi

161. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

— Rumi

162. “Only the soul knows what love is.”

— Rumi

163. “I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.”

— Rumi

164. “You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.”

— Rumi

165. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”

— Rumi

166. “Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.”

— Rumi

167. “Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love.”

— Rumi

168. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

— Rumi

169. “Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.”

— Rumi

170. “There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.”

— Rumi

171. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

— Rumi

172. “Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.”

— Rumi

173. “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

— Rumi

174. “Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.”

— Rumi

175. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”

— Rumi

176. “A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle.”

— Rumi

177. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”

— Rumi

178. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.”

— Rumi

179. “Stop learning. Start knowing.”

— Rumi

180. “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.”

— Rumi

181. “Let silence take you to the core of life.”

— Rumi

182. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”

— Rumi

183. “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.”

— Rumi

184. “Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.”

— Rumi

185. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”

— Rumi

186. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

— Rumi

187. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

— Rumi

188. “There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.”

— Rumi

189. “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

— Rumi

190. “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”

— Rumi

191. “It’s good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”

— Rumi

192. “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”

— Rumi

193. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

— Rumi

194. “What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.”

— Rumi

195. “Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.”

— Rumi

196. “Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.”

— Rumi

197. “Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.”

— Rumi

198. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”

— Rumi

199. “Those who don’t want to change, let them sleep.”

— Rumi

200. “Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”

— Rumi