Rumi Quotes & Sayings

“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

“And you. When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

“Patience is the key to joy.”

“Be an empty page, untouched by words.”

“Anyone who genuinely and consistently — with both hands — looks for something will find it.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”

“This is a subtle truth: whatever you love, you are.”

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”

“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”

“Dance until you shatter yourself.”

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”

“Silence is the language of God; all else is a poor translation.”

“You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings — learn to use them and fly.”

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground, be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”

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

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.”

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

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

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