Rumi Quotes & Sayings

“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

“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.”

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

“When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“The prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”

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

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

“Ignore those who make you fearful and sad, those who degrade you back toward disease and death.”

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

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing.”

“Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”

“All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”

“Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”

“Be full of sorrow so that you may become a hill of joy; weep so that you may break into laughter.”

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

“It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”

“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”

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

“Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who seeks will find.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”