Rumi Quotes

Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. For those who love with heart and soul there is no separation.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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

Be grateful for whatever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

What you seek is seeking you.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water?

The cure for the pain is in the pain.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.