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

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

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

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

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

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure. Where there is bitterness, there is healing."

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

"Love makes its own reality, beyond what is real or unreal."

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

"When you see a lover walking fast down the street, they're not going toward someone; they're being pulled."

"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."

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

"I am so close to you, I become your breath, yet I still long to be closer."

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

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

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

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

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

"You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You are the sky. Thoughts are clouds."

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

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

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

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."

"Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still."

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

"The lamps are different, but the Light is the same."

"You are not just a student of the universe—you are the universe learning about itself."

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

"Become the sky. Take shame away. Take pride away. Take everything away."

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

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

"Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being."

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

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

"Rise above the storm and you will find sunshine."

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams."

"Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips."

"The way out is through the door. How could you not know this? You’ve been trying to knock your way through a wall."

"Wound me again with your eyes, for without that pain, I am nothing."

"Even if you do not see the sun rise, know that it has risen."

"Darkness is a friend. It shows you the stars."

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

"No matter how hard the wind blows, the mountain cannot bow to the valley."

"Grief teaches the steed of suffering how to dance."

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

"When you feel a peaceful sweetness opening you up like a dawn flower, then you're inside the medicine."

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

"The only true grief is separation from the Beloved."

"Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for us. Keep walking. This is how you came here."

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

"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy: weep, that you may laugh wholeheartedly."

"Ignore those who try to discourage you. Small minds will always try to tear down what large minds build."

"Sit, be silent, and listen: for your beloved will speak through the air."

"Let the water settle and the mud will clear."

"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth."

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."

"What you seek is seeking you."

"Be like a flower and bloom despite people not caring."

"Dance when you’re broken open. Dance if you’ve torn the bandage off."

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

"Bloom in silence, bear fruit in secret."

"I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God."

"Thirst is the cure for drinking. Hunger is the cure for food."

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

"You run around searching for water, while carrying the spring within you."

"Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?"

"You are the hidden treasure, and you are the one who seeks it."

"The longing you express for what you are missing is the return address."

"Wherever you are, whatever you do, remember the Beloved."

"My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

"I am yours. Don't give myself back to me."

"Come back. Even if you have broken your promises a thousand times, come back."

"You left, and my heart went with you. I don’t know whose body I’m living in anymore."

"Words are a bridge between souls."

"Truth has no path, because truth is living and dynamic."

"Yesterday I was clever, today I am wise."

"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece and looked into it and thought he had the truth."

"Speak a new language so that the world can’t understand you."

"Knowledge is a tree of which intuition is the root."

"The only prison is fear, and the only freedom is love."

"Be drunk on love, for love alone can take you to eternity."

"The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns."

"Reason is powerless in the expression of Love."

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

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

"You must grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

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

"You were born with wings. Why settle for crawling?"

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

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."

"Turn yourself into a living lamp. Burn with love."

"The seed must die to become a flower."

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

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

"When you lose interest in superficial things, you gain depth."

"Die before you die, so you can live forever."

"Change is painful, yet nothing moves without it."

"All religions, all singing—one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity."

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

"We are all like the bright moon, we still have the power to shine, even when broken."

"Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system."

"You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air."

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

"Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into this world with the whole picture."

"The entire universe exists within a single human being—you."

"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust."

"Beyond all forms of identity, I am with you."

"Let us carve diamonds out of ordinary men."

"We are all waves of the same sea, leaves of the same tree."

"Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live."

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more beautifully because you have lived."

"Step into the fire. Let it burn away your flaws."

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

"Be reckless—I’m not talking about acting rashly, but be brave in the face of your actions."

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right."

"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."

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

"Break the wine jar, throw away the bread—live from the nectar of Presence."

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

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Walk without feet, hear without ears, taste without tongue. What you seek is within you."