Rumi Quotes

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

There is a window from one heart to another heart.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

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

When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

Smiles come best from those who weep.

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.

I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

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

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

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.

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

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

Go my friendbestow your loveeven on your enemiesif you touch their heartswhat do you think will happen.

What strikes the oyster shelldoesn't damage the pearl.

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy;Love tells us we are.My life flows between the two.

Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us.

Don't seek the water; get thirst.

Appear as you are, or be as you appear.

The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.

Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.

Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

Beauty surrounds us.

Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love,if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

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

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

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

Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

The source of now is here.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Try something different. Surrender.

If I Separated MyselfFrom You . . . I Would TurnEntirely Thorn!

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

The intellectual is always showing off,the lover is always getting lost.The intellectual runs away.afraid of drowning;the whole business of loveis to drown in the sea.Intellectuals plan their repose;lovers are ashamed to rest.The lover is always alone.even surrounded by people;like water and oil, he remains apart.The man who goes to the troubleof giving advice to a loverget nothing. He's mocked by passion.Love is like musk. It attracts attention.Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!