Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.”

— Rumi

252. “By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.”

— Rumi

253. “Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.”

— Rumi

254. “Close both eyes to see with the other eye.”

— Rumi

255. “I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.”

— Rumi

256. “Don’t look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.”

— Rumi

257. “Patience is the key to joy.”

— Rumi

258. “Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

— Rumi

259. “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

— Rumi

260. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

— Rumi

261. “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”

— Rumi

262. “You are the mirror of divine beauty.”

— Rumi

263. “I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.”

— Rumi

264. “You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love.”

— Rumi

265. “One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.”

— Rumi

266. “I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.”

— Rumi

267. “Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.”

— Rumi

268. “God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.”

— Rumi

269. “And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”

— Rumi

270. “The one who has a good friend doesn’t need any mirror.”

— Rumi

271. “Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.”

— Rumi

272. “Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.”

— Rumi

273. “I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, ‘It tastes sweet, does it not?’ ‘You’ve caught me,’ grief answered, ’and you’ve ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it’s a blessing?”

— Rumi

274. “Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.”

— Rumi

275. “All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.”

— Rumi

276. “You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!”

— Rumi

277. “Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.”

— Rumi

278. “To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved.”

— Rumi

279. “What strange beings we are! Sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we’re afraid of our own immortality.”

— Rumi

280. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”

— Rumi

281. “To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.”

— Rumi

282. “Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.”

— Rumi

283. “Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

— Rumi

284. “A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.”

— Rumi

285. “What a joy to travel the way of the heart.”

— Rumi

286. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”

— Rumi

287. “Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.”

— Rumi

288. “In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.”

— Rumi

289. “Be with those who help your being.”

— Rumi

290. “A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.”

— Rumi

291. “Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.”

— Rumi

292. “Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”

— Rumi

293. “My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don’t harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don’t teach what you do not know.”

— Rumi

294. “Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.”

— Rumi

295. “Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”

— Rumi

296. “Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

— Rumi

297. “Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.”

— Rumi

298. “Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”

— Rumi

299. “A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.”

— Rumi

300. “Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.”

— Rumi