Selected Quotes By Rumi
"Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof."
Rumi, Intelligence/Wisdom
"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."
Rumi, Love
"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, Freedom
"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."
Rumi, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."
Rumi, Goals
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
Rumi, Love
"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love."
Rumi, Love
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."
Rumi, Life
"Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge."
Rumi, Love
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."
Rumi, Love
"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust."
Rumi, Life
"A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home."
Rumi, Love
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."
Rumi, Life
"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."
Rumi, Problems, Happiness
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
Rumi, Life
"Travel brings power and love back into your life."
Rumi, Power, Love
"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?"
Rumi, Love
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
Rumi, Love
"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."
Rumi, Love
"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."
Rumi, Love
"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."
Rumi, Criticism
"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."
Rumi, Wealth
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
Rumi, Life
"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."
Rumi, Love
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
Rumi, Intelligence/Wisdom
"I want to see you.
Know your voice.
Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner.
Sense your scent when I come into a room you've just left.
Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot.
Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you.
I want to know the joy of how you whisper 'more.'"
Rumi, Love
"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."
Rumi, Belief
"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
Rumi, Anger and Fighting
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
Rumi, Happiness
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
Rumi, Life
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
Rumi, Goals
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"
Rumi, Criticism
"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."
Rumi, Freedom
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
Rumi, Love
"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi, Life
"What you seek is seeking you."
Rumi, Goals
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
Rumi, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."
Rumi, Life
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi, Life
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."
Rumi, Friendship
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."