Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love.”

— Rumi

252. “Patience is the key to joy.”

— Rumi

253. “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

254. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

257. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

264. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

268. “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

269. “What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

272. “Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, But don’t move the way fear makes you move.”

— Rumi

273. “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

274. “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

275. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

281. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

286. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

293. “Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

296. “The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

299. “A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity.”

— Rumi

300. “Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.”

— Rumi