Our latest collection of inspirational Rumi quotes and sayings that will make you see the bright side of life.
Rumi quotes are well known for being wise, thought-provoking and powerful. Let these inspirational quotes and motivational quotes help you realize all the power and beauty you have inside you.
Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet who’s had a massive influence on Muslim writing and culture. He has a huge following around the world and is actually one of the best selling poets in the USA. His works have been translated to many different languages, including Spanish, Turkish, German, Russian, Urdu, Arabic, French and Italian.
Brad Gooch, who wrote a biography of Rumi, describes him as “a poet of joy and of love”.
Rumi’s work continues to resonate today. In his honor, below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and powerful Rumi quotes and Rumi sayings, collected from a variety of sources over the years.
Rumi quotes about the journey of life
1.) “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi
2.) “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi
Jalaluddin Rumi quotes on life, time, and the universe
3.) “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
4.) “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi
5.) “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” – Rumi
6.) “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” – Rumi
7.) “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.” – Rumi
Rumi quotes from his poems about our place in the universe
8.) “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” – Rumi
9.) “Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.” – Rumi
10.) “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
11.) “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.” – Rumi
12.) “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi
13.) “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.” – Rumi
Rumi quotes on love and connection
14.) “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.” – Rumi
15.) “If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.” – Rumi
16.) “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.” – Rumi
17.) “I am so close, I may look distant.
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
So out in the open, I appear hidden.
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.” – Rumi
18.) “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi
Rumi quotes on life and self love
19.) “Don’t wait any longer.
Dive in the ocean,
Leave and let the sea be you.” – Rumi
20.) “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.” – Rumi
21.) “Love so needs to love
that it will endure almost anything, even abuse,
just to flicker for a moment. But the sky’s mouth is kind,
its song will never hurt you, for I
sing those words.” – Rumi
Rumi quotes on trust
22.) “May these vows and this marriage be blessed.” – Rumi
23.) “There’s a field somewhere
beyond all doubt and wrong doing.
I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi
24.) “The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi
25.) “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” – Rumi
26.) “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.” ― Rumi
Rumi quotes on dreams and life
27.) “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” – Rumi
28.) “make your last journey
from this strange world
soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home
God has created
your wings not to be dormant
as long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you’re alive”
― Rumi
29.) “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” – Rumi
Inspirational quotes by Rumi to help you see the bright side of life
30.) “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” – Rumi
31.) “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.” – Rumi
32.) “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” – Rumi
Quotes by Rumi about life and love
33.) “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi
34.) “I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There’s no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.” – Rumi
35.) “A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.” ― Rumi
36.) “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! – Rumi
37.) “What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?” – Rumi
38.) “It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.” – Rumi
Jalaluddin Rumi quotes about love from his books and poems
39.) “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” – Rumi
40.) “Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.” – Rumi
41.) “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
42.) “If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.” – Rumi
Jalaluddin Rumi quotes from his poems and books about life
43.) “Open your hands if you want to be held.” – Rumi
44.) “Come, 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.” – Rumi
45.) “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
46.) “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
47.) “Let silence take you to the core of life.” – Rumi
48.) “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.” – Rumi
49.) “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” ― Rumi
50.) “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi
Rumi quotes that will expand your mind
51.) “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.” – Rumi
52.) “Travel brings p
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