Rumi Quotes

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.”

“In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.”

“You must ask for what you really want.”

“Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk.”

“Criticism polishes my mirror.”

“No more holding back.Be reckless.Tell your Love to everybody.”

“When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.”

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”

“On this path let the heart be your guide.”

“The message behind the wordsis the voice of the heart.”

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

“Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.”

“What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.”

“Swim out of your little pond.”

“If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.”

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

“I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.”

“Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.”

“Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises”

“When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.”

“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

“The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.”

“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”

“There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!”