Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”

— Rumi

352. “Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.”

— Rumi

353. “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

354. “Be watchful – the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.”

— Rumi

355. “In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.”

— Rumi

356. “Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.”

— Rumi

357. “Empathy is even better than talking in one language.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

360. “Do you think I know what I’m doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it’s writing, or the ball can guess where it’s going next.”

— Rumi

361. “Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.”

— Rumi

362. “My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?”

— Rumi

363. “Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.”

— Rumi

364. “There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.”

— Rumi

365. “I can heal a broken heart with a smile.”

— Rumi

366. “When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”

— Rumi

367. “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.”

— Rumi

368. “If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.”

— Rumi

369. “Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given the door with open.”

— Rumi

370. “On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.”

— Rumi

371. “I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.”

— Rumi

372. “Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”

— Rumi

373. “The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won’t find the Secret.”

— Rumi

374. “When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.”

— Rumi

375. “With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

377. “I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.”

— Rumi

378. “Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.”

— Rumi

379. “If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.”

— Rumi

380. “I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

382. “Inside of us, there’s a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.”

— Rumi

383. “I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.”

— Rumi

384. “When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.”

— Rumi

385. “Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.”

— Rumi

386. “The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.”

— Rumi

387. “If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.”

— Rumi

388. “My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.”

— Rumi

389. “Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.”

— Rumi

390. “I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.”

— Rumi

391. “Those who don’t feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep.”

— Rumi

392. “You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don’t be without Love, so you won’t feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.”

— Rumi

393. “Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”

— Rumi

394. “Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!”

— Rumi

395. “Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.”

— Rumi

396. “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”

— Rumi

397. “For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.”

— Rumi

398. “Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.”

— Rumi

399. “Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.”

— Rumi

400. “Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.”

— Rumi