Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.”

— Rumi

302. “Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

306. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

309. “Let yourself become living poetry.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

327. “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

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

— Rumi

329. “I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.”

— 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. “From understanding comes LOVE.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

333. “The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.”

— 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. “The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

339. “Dance until you shatter yourself.”

— Rumi

340. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

345. “To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

348. “As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

350. “When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.”

— Rumi