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Rumi Quotes

Total quotes: 75
“This longing, too large for Heaven and Earth, fits easily in my heart.”
— Rumi, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of the Sufi Poet Rumi
Tagged: Longing, Missing Someone, Desire
“Once you have met a true human being, let him not disappear from the horizon of your heart.”
— Rumi, via Amazon
Tagged: true human being, human, Right Person, Partner, Soul Mate, Person, Human Being, heart, Genuine
“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, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Love, Life, Feeling, poem, Poetry
“Lovers are patient and know
That the moon needs time to become full.”
— Rumi, Rumi: "Behind The Beauty Of The Moon Is The MoonMaker"
Tagged: Love, love & patience, Love Is Patient, Lovers, Patience, Development, Blooming, Poetry, poem
“Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.”
— Rumi, Rebuilding Your Life: 54 Affirmations for Transcending Adversity(54 Affirmations for Healing) (Volume 3)
Tagged: Letting Go, Overthinking, relax, Mind
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi, Life and Work of Muhammad Jalal-Ud-Din Rumi
Tagged: Change, Knowledge, Desire, Wisdom
“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; for I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.”
— Rumi, A quote by Jalaluddin Rumi
Tagged: Familiarity, Knowing Someone, Different personality, Attitude
“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, Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Tagged: Love, beauty, Light, Art, Poetry
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Raise your words not your voice, it is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Rumi, Soul, Spirituality
“I keep seeking other hearts, torn by separation to share my tale of painful longing.”
— Rumi, Masnavi
Tagged: separation, Divide of the Divine, Longing For Love, Desire, Something Is Missing, Quote of the Moment
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes; for those who love with heart and soul there is no separation.”
— Rumi, Rumi Quotes on Twitter
Tagged: Goodbyes, Ending, Love, Soul
“I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries, to love you, to nourish you. Oh sweet bitterness, I will soothe you and heal you. I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.”
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Love, Desire, Good Intentions, Healing
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
— Rumi, via Amazon
Tagged: Love, romance, Relationships, overcoming breakups, Breakups, Inspirational
“Let yourself become living poetry.”
— Rumi, Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart
Tagged: self, Self Confidence, Self Acceptance, Life, living poetry, Poetry, Self Worth
“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
— Rumi, A Quote by Rumi
Tagged: Encouragement, Inspirational, Words To Live By
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
— Rumi, Alpha Black
Tagged: Encouraging, Advice
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an entire ocean in a drop.”
— Rumi, You Are An Entire Ocean In A Drop
Tagged: Beautiful Quotes, Ocean, Water
“Gratitude is the wine of the soul. Go on. Get drunk!”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality, Gratitude
“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“You need no name.
You are the ocean.
I am held in your sway.”
— Rumi, Four New Translations of Rumi- Guernica
Tagged: Love, romance, Lovers, Lover, poem, Poetry
“While the mind sees only boundaries, love knows the secret way there.”
— Rumi, Rumi
Tagged: Rumi, Love, heart, Wisdom
“In tears come laughter concealed. Seek the treasure beneath the ruins.”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“God recreates us at every moment, sending new thoughts into our hearts.”
— Rumi
Tagged: New Worlds, Emerging Behaviors, Religion Quotes, Quote of the Moment, Where Ideas Come From
“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.”
— Rumi, Love's Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi | BillMoyers.com
Tagged: Wind, morning wind, Beginning, present, present moment, Now, the now, Living In The Present, Life
“Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.”
— Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Worrying, Treasures
“I once had a thousand desires,
but in my one desire to know you,
all else melted away.”
— Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved
Tagged: Love, romance, liking someone, Loving Someone, Yearning, admiration, poem, Poetry
“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, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi, Inspirational
“They're lovers again: Sugar dissolving in milk. Day and night, no difference. The sun is the moon: an amalgam.”
— Rumi, "The Elusive Ones"
Tagged: Elusive, lovers coming together, conflation of two people, sun and the moon, Day and Night, Relationships
“I’m an artist creating perfect images at every moment, then melting down those images before your eyes.”
— Rumi, Ghazal 1462
Tagged: Artists, Let It Burn, Imagery, Creative Destruction
“If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.”
— Rumi, Do You Love Me?
Tagged: Love, romance, Loving, Loving Each Other, Self-Love, Poetry, poem
“When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
“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.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Don't cover your face.
The world is a reeling, drunken body, and you are its intelligent head.
Don't hide the candle
of your clarity.
Stand up and burn
through the night, my prince.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you fearful
and sad, that degrade you
back toward disease and death.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world

I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you.”
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Rumi, Soul, Spirituality
“When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry at once, quickly, for God's sake!
Don't postpone it! 
Existence has no better gift.  
No amount of searching will find this.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“In the love-ocean clothes are an embarrassment. Don't look to be famous here, and don't expect payment.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?”
— Rumi, Unknown
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