Rumi Quotes & Sayings

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

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

“Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”

“I belong to no religion; my religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. For those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation.”

“The very center of your heart is where life begins, the most beautiful place on earth.”

“There is a life force within your soul—seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body—mine it. O traveler, if you are in search of it, don't look outside; look inside yourself and seek it.”

“Come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

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

“Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”

“Take someone who doesn't keep score, who is not looking to be richer or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he is free.”

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

“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

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

“People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.”

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

“The world is a mountain; your words echo back to you.”

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

“Don't be satisfied with stories of how things have gone with others — unfold your own myth.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

“What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.”