15. *Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”

13. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”

21. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”

55. "Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”

Revered as a great poet and spiritual master, his musings on life, love, Sufism and the <a href="https://leverageedu.com/blog/mysteries-in-science/">mysteries </a> of our universe are loved by many! Here we bring you the best Rumi quotes that will transform your view on life, love and the world itself.

Poet And Spiritual Master

93. "Beauty surrounds us, but usually, we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”

82. "Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

84. "Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.”

90. "When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”

10. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.”

66. "Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”

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

17. "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?”

18. "Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”

92. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

Funny Rumi Quotes

37. If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

26. "When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”

35. "What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”

40. "Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”

33. "Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”

69. "Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”

95. "Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

97. "Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved.”

31. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

43. "Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.”

49. "As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

59. "Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”

63. "The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.”

80. *Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.”

78. "The message behind the words is the voice of the heart."

20. "Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

23. "And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”

54. "Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

72. “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

Inspirational Rumi Quotes

70. "What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”

71. "The source of now is here.”

22. "The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

91. "There is a life force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.”

98. “Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”

Wise Rumi Quotes

65. "Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

52. "Patience is the key to joy.”

7. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”

75. "Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”

68. "Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty."

81. "With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.”

5. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”

62. "Be an empty page, untouched by words.”

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

104. Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”

46. "Dance until you shatter yourself.”

77. Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.”

41. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”

11. “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”

34. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

38. "There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrongdoing. I’ll meet you there.”

44. "Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

47. "It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”

61. "Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”

89. "The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.”

Fun Fact: Do you know that Rumi is credited with inventing the whirling dervishes’ dance? Keep reading the famous Rumi quotes till the end.

Whirling Dervish

36. "In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”

2. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

3. “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”

64. "To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”

73. "Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.”

74. "Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.”

94. "I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”

48. "Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”

87. "Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it.”

28. "I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”

53. *If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

76. "Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”

12.“The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”

29. "Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

32. "The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”

28. "I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”

Fun Fact: Rumi is an Arabic word that means “Roman.” Since Rumi had spent so much of his life in the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia, which had previously invaded the region from the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire, he was given the name of Rumi. Continue reading this list of Rumi quotes.

Rumi Meaning

25. *I want to sing like the bird’s sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

51. “Sit, be still, and listen.”

Short Rumi Quotes

16. "Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

79. "You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.”

83. "Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

88. "In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”

99. "Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”

100. "Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.”101. "The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.”102. "All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”103. "Anything which is more tha

57. "Dance until you shatter yourself.”

85. "Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.”

86. "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

50. "What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

42. "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray.”

6. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”

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

24. "Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

27. "Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour.”

8. “If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”

67. "You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”

45. "Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”

101. "The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.”102. "All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”103. "Anyth

Fun Fact: Rumi was a traditional religious teacher until the age of 37 when he met Shams Tabrizi, a wandering dervish (a Muslim who tries to get closer to God by living in poverty). It was his friendship with Shamz that changed his life.

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