Rumi Quotes

Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real.

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.

I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",I too scoffed at lovers,Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.No one is safe! Watch out.

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

No mirror ever became iron again;No bread ever became wheat;No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.Become the light.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

Do not feel lonely,the entire universe is inside you.Stop acting so small.You are the universe in ecstatic motion.Set your life on fire.Seek those who fan your flames.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.

Because of your love I have broken with my past

Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.

We often need to be refreshed.

Every moment, the sunlightis totally empty and totally full.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

Patience is the key to joy.

You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.

Love, the life-giving garden of this world.

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

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

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

The Law of Wonder rules my life at last,...I burn each second of my life to LoveEach second of my life burns out in LoveIn each leaping second Love lives afresh.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

I will conquer the whole world and fill it with myself

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...

There is an original inside me.

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

The lover never despairs.For a committed heart everything is possible.

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

In Silence there is eloquence.

The only way to measure a loveris by the grandeur of the beloved.

Speak with the language of love.