Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

403. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

412. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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417. “If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.”

— Rumi

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. “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

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

— Rumi

437. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

441. “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

442. “Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.”

— Rumi

443. “I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.”

— Rumi

444. “There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.”

— Rumi

445. “Love calls – everywhere and always. We’re sky bound. Are you coming?”

— Rumi

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446. “You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.”

— Rumi

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447. “Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.”

— Rumi

448. “A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.”

— Rumi

449. “Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”

— Rumi

450. “You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.”

— Rumi