Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

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

Rumi

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.

Rumi

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

Rumi

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

Rumi

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

Rumi

I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

Rumi

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

Rumi

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

Rumi

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Rumi

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

Rumi

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

Rumi

Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.

Rumi

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

Rumi

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

Rumi

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

Rumi

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

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

Rumi

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

Rumi

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Rumi

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Rumi

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Rumi

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

Rumi

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

Rumi

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

Rumi

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

Rumi

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

Rumi

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Rumi

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

Rumi

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Rumi

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

Rumi

The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

Rumi

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.