Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

303. “Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.”

— Rumi

304. “Do you hear what the music is saying? ‘Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.’”

— Rumi

305. “Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”

— Rumi

306. “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

308. “In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.”

— Rumi

309. “Of all you see, only love is infinite.”

— Rumi

310. “Let yourself become living poetry.”

— Rumi

311. “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

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

— Rumi

313. “It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.”

— Rumi

314. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.”

— Rumi

315. “Listen to the sound of waves within you.”

— Rumi

316. “You don’t live on the earth, you are passing through it.”

— Rumi

317. “Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”

— Rumi

318. “Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”

— Rumi

319. “Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”

— Rumi

320. “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”

— Rumi

321. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

— Rumi

322. “Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.”

— Rumi

323. “Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.”

— Rumi

324. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

— Rumi

325. “But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”

— Rumi

326. “Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.”

— Rumi

327. “Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”

— Rumi

328. “Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.”

— Rumi

329. “Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”

— Rumi

330. “Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more – more unseen forms become manifest to him.”

— Rumi

331. “The soul is here for its own joy.”

— Rumi

332. “Dance until you shatter yourself.”

— Rumi

333. “The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked.”

— Rumi

334. “How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend’s hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.”

— Rumi

335. “When there’s no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don’t kill that hope...”

— Rumi

336. “There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.”

— Rumi

337. “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.”

— Rumi

338. “Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

— Rumi

339. “Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.”

— Rumi

340. “From understanding comes LOVE.”

— Rumi

341. “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”

— Rumi

342. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”

— Rumi

343. “Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!”

— Rumi

344. “I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.”

— Rumi

345. “Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.”

— Rumi

346. “From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.”

— Rumi

347. “The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.”

— Rumi

348. “Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.”

— Rumi

349. “Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.”

— Rumi

350. “Believe in love’s infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life.”

— Rumi