Rumi quotes.
All 31 quotations by Rumi in our collection.
“Wherever you go, whatever you do, be in love.”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.”
“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
“Take time like the river that never grows stale. Keep going and steady. No hurry, no rush.”
“What is planted in each person's soul will sprout. ”
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
“Remember the entrance to the sanctuary is inside you.”
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.”
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
“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.”
“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. ”
“It's your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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