115 Rumi Quotes to Inspire You on the Path of Life

Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet who had a massive influence on Muslim writing and culture. He was an experimental innovator and a Sufi master. This combination of mystical richness and bold adaptations of poetic forms is the key to his popularity today. This 815-year-old Persian mystic and dervish has a massive following in the United States and around the world. His work continues to resonate today. Rumi’s works have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Turkish, German, Russian, Urdu, Arabic, French and Italian. Here are the best Rumi Quotes to inspire you on the path of life.

Rumi Quotes

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

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

3. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” ~ Rumi

4. “Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.” ~ Rumi

5. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” ~ Rumi

6. “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.” ~ Rumi

7. “The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.” ~ Rumi

8. “When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” ~ Rumi

9. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.” ~ Rumi
10. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.” ~ Rumi

Rumi Quotes on Love

11. “Reason is powerless in the expression of love.” ~ Rumi
12. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” ~ Rumi
13. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” ~ Rumi
14. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ~ Rumi
15. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” ~ Rumi
16. “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.” ~ Rumi
17. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray.” ~ Rumi
18. “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved.” ~ Rumi
19. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” ~ Rumi
20. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” ~ Rumi

Short Rumi Quotes

21. “The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.” ~ Rumi
22. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” ~ Rumi
23. “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.” ~ Rumi
24. “Dance until you shatter yourself.” ~ Rumi
25. “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.” ~ Rumi
26. “Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.” ~ Rumi
27. “Let yourself become living poetry.” ~ Rumi
28. “Be an empty page, untouched by words.” ~ Rumi
29. “The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.” ~ Rumi
30. “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.” ~ Rumi

Quotes by Rumi

31. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” ~ Rumi 
32. “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” ~ Rumi
33. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~ Rumi
34. “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.” ~ Rumi
35. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” ~ Rumi
36. “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
37. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” ~ Rumi
38. “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
39. “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.” ~ Rumi
40. “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” ~ Rumi

Rumi Quotes on Life

41. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” ~ Rumi
42. “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?” ~ Rumi
43. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ~ Rumi
44. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.” ~ Rumi
45. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” ~ Rumi
46. “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.” ~ Rumi
47. “Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.” ~ Rumi
48. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.” ~ Rumi
49. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.” ~ Rumi
50. “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.” ~ Rumi

Rumi Quotes

51. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” ~ Rumi
52. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” ~ Rumi
53. “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” ~ Rumi
54. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” ~ Rumi
55. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” ~ Rumi
56. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” ~ Rumi
57. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” ~ Rumi
58. “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” ~ Rumi
59. “And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.” ~ Rumi
60. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.” ~ Rumi

Inspirational Quotes by Rumi

61. “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.” ~ Rumi
62. “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.” ~ Rumi
63. “If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” ~ Rumi
64. “There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrongdoing. I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
65. “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.” ~ Rumi
66. “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” ~ Rumi
67. “Sit, be still, and listen.” ~ Rumi
68. “Patience is the key to joy.” ~ Rumi
69. “Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.” ~ Rumi
70. “If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” ~ Rumi

Famous Rumi Quotes

71. “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.” ~ Rumi
72. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” ~ Rumi
73. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” ~ Rumi
74. “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.” ~ Rumi
75. “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.” ~ Rumi
76. “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.” ~ Rumi
77. “The source of now is here.” ~ Rumi
78. “I want to sing like the bird’s sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” ~ Rumi
79. “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.” ~ Rumi
80. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.” ~ Rumi

Rumi Best Quotes

81. “In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” ~ Rumi
82. “Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.” ~ Rumi
83. “The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.” ~ Rumi
84. “You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.” ~ Rumi
85. “Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.” ~ Rumi
86. “With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.” ~ Rumi
87. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” ~ Rumi
88. “In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.” ~ Rumi
89. “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.” ~ Rumi
90. “Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.” ~ Rumi

Rumi Quotes

91. “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it.” ~ Rumi
92. “Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.” ~ Rumi
93. “The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.” ~ Rumi
94. “When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.” ~ Rumi
95. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually, we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” ~ Rumi
96. “I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.” ~ Rumi
97. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” ~ Rumi
98. “All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.” ~ Rumi
99. “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.” ~ Rumi
100. “Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.” ~ Rumi

Poet Rumi Quotes

101. “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
102. “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.” ~ Rumi
103. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” ~ Rumi
104. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” ~ Rumi
105. “Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.” ~ Rumi
106. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” ~ Rumi
107. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ~ Rumi
108. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.” ~ Rumi
109. “Let silence take you to the core of life.” ~ Rumi
110. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.” ~ Rumi
111. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi
112. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” ~ Rumi
113. “Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything” ~ Rumi
114. “What you seek is seeking you” ~ Rumi
115. “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you” ~ Rumi

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