100+ Best Rumi Quotes That Inspire Love, Life & Spirituality

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

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

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

"Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along."

"When I saw you, I found myself. When I found you, I lost myself."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."

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

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

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."

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

"You are not a prisoner of your circumstances. You are a prisoner of your own thoughts."

"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come down to you. Unfold yourself."

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

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

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

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

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

"You are an aperture through which the universe is observing itself."

"Who said anything about leaving? Who said anything about staying? You are the sky. Everything else is just weather."

"The lamp burns bright when the wick is clean."

"Die before you die. There is no death."

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

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

"Let the waters settle and you will see more clearly."

"Become the ocean and throw off the river."

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

"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen."

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

"The moment I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was."

"Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation."

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

"Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen."

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps your house clear of dead wood."

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

"When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be."

"Release your ego, for it is only a veil between you and the truth."

"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; empty your mind of thoughts so that new wisdom can enter."

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

"Let go of the way you thought life would be. Hold on to the way it is."

"Grief is just love with no place to go."

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

"What you seek is seeking you."

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep."

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

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

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

"Sit, be still, and listen—because when you are silent, the voice of the Soul speaks."

"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!"

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."

"The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open."

"In silence, there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."

"Pain insists upon being noticed. It swells up like a dammed-up stream."

"The cure for pain is in the pain."

"Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you."

"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

"Even if you are a sinner a hundred times, come back. Our door stays open."

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"

"You are not broken. You are bending, growing, healing."

"Tears polish the heart until it sees."

"No matter how far you run, your grief is always two steps behind you. Turn and face it."

"Healing begins where the wound was made."

"Travel brings power and love back into your life."

"The journey is the destination."

"Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to."

"You were born to journey toward what you already are."

"Leave now, while you’re still free. Travel! Travel! Travel!"

"The path to the Truth is through the heart."

"Don’t wait to be united. You’re already woven together."

"You are not a stranger here. You belong to the universe."

"Every breath is a train going somewhere holy."

"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand."

"Walk without feet. Fly without wings. Cry without eyes. The soul knows the way."

"You are not just a traveler—you are the road itself."

"Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation."

"Close your mouth and be quiet. The teacher will appear before you."

"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen."

"Sit quietly and listen. There is another voice that wants to speak."

"Stillness is the altar of the soul."

"When you are quiet, even the mountains lean toward you."

"In silence, there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves."

"Let the waters settle and you will see more clearly."

"Empty your mind of thoughts so that the Word can enter."

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

"Words make the event, but silence is the source."

"Breathe. Be still. Remember who you are."

"Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be."

"Trust the timing of your life."

"Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen."

"You are not running out of time. You are running into grace."

"When you let go completely, you gain everything."

"Fall down. Get up. Fall down seven times. Get up eight."

"The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore."

"Let the sea take care of the waves. Just float."

"You are not separate from the universe. You are part of its rhythm."

"Stop trying to control. Start learning to flow."

"What you fight, you strengthen. What you resist, persists."

"Let go. Let God. Let life happen."

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

"We are all just walking each other home."

"Beyond our ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there."

"All religions, all singing—one song. The different paths we walk are inconsequential."

"You and I are one. When I die, keep me in your heart, I’ll never leave you."

"The Beloved is all. The lover servant is nothing."

"If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you."

"We came in emptiness, we will return to emptiness. What is this clinging to form?"

"You are not separate. You are not alone. You are part of the whole."

"Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning and no end."

"The same moonlight that lights the palace also lights the hovel."

"We are all mirrors of one another. See yourself in everyone."