Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

407. “I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

409. “What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

411. “Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God.”

— Rumi

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412. “All we really want is love’s confusing joy.”

— Rumi

413. “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

414. “If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.”

— Rumi

415. “This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.”

— Rumi

416. “In real existence there is only unity.”

— Rumi

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417. “Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”

— Rumi

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418. “The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”

— Rumi

419. “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.”

— Rumi

420. “Be with those who help your being. Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.”

— Rumi

421. “Remember God so much that you are forgotten.”

— Rumi

422. “Beyond ideas, there’s a field. Will you meet me there?”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

424. “Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.”

— Rumi

425. “A strange passion is moving in my head. My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”

— Rumi

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426. “Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.”

— Rumi

427. “Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.”

— Rumi

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428. “I don’t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.”

— Rumi

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429. “The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.”

— Rumi

430. “All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

— Rumi

431. “To a frog that’s never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he’s giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. “I can’t explain where I live, but someday I’ll take you there.””

— Rumi

432. “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”

— Rumi

433. “You are a volume in the divine book. A mirror to the power that created the universe. Whatever you want, ask it of yourself. Whatever you’re looking for can only be found inside of you.”

— Rumi

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434. “In the sea of love, I melt like salt. Faith, doubt – they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart; the worlds turn in it.”

— Rumi

435. “But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.”

— Rumi

436. “Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.”

— Rumi

437. “The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.”

— Rumi

438. “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.”

— Rumi

439. “Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.”

— Rumi

440. “People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.”

— Rumi

441. “My longing for you keeps me in this moment. My passion gives me courage.”

— Rumi

442. “Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.”

— Rumi

443. “Lamps are different, but light is the same.”

— Rumi

444. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

— Rumi

445. “If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.”

— Rumi

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446. “To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.”

— Rumi

447. “All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.”

— Rumi

448. “The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”

— Rumi

449. “The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.”

— Rumi

450. “Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.”

— Rumi