Rumi Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

“When you see someone who is often silent and avoids people, stay close to them — they have been given wisdom.”

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

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”

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

“If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”

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