61 Famous quotes and sayings by Rumi

61 Famous quotes and sayings by Rumi. Here are the best Rumi quotes to read that will inspire you and proven to give you a positive outlook for your daily life. Jalaluddin Rumi is known to be one of the best mystic poets ever in history, who influenced the Islamic world, and recently in Western countries for over seven hundred years. May these famous Rumi quotes give the motivation that you need to overcome challenges in life, and encourage the love for others that can change the world positively. Share these quotes by Rumi with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.

1. 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

2. Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. - Rumi

3. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? - Rumi

4. When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them. - Rumi

5. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. - Rumi

6. Silence is the language of god,  all else is a poor translation. - Rumi

7. 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

8. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. - Rumi

9. The lamps are different, but the light is the same. - Rumi

10. As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. - Rumi

11. Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you? - Rumi

12. Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. - Rumi

13. Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. - Rumi

14. The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth. - Rumi

15. When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be. - Rumi

16. I found myself. - Rumi

17. When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. - Rumi

18. Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. - Rumi

19. Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. - Rumi

20. Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. - Rumi

21. Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. - Rumi

22. The wound is the place where the light enters you. - Rumi

23. We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. - Rumi

24. You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising. - Rumi

25. Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. - Rumi

26. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. - Rumi

27. It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. - Rumi

28. You have within you more love than you could ever understand. - Rumi

29. I want to sing like the bird's sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. - Rumi

30. The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. - Rumi

31. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open. - Rumi

32. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Rumi

33. You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life. - Rumi

34. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. - Rumi

35. The quieter you become the more you are able to hear. - Rumi

36. The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. - Rumi

37. If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home. - Rumi

38. My soul is my guide. - Rumi

39. This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are. - Rumi

40. You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. - Rumi

41. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. - Rumi

42. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. - Rumi

43. Don’t be satisfied with stories. How things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. - Rumi

44. Inside you, there’s an artist you don’t know about. - Rumi

45. The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. - Rumi

46. There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that. - Rumi

47. Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there. - Rumi

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

49. Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds. - Rumi

50. Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. - Rumi

51. What you seek is seeking you. - Rumi

52. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. - Rumi

53. When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. - Rumi

54. There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen. - Rumi

55. Love is the bridge between you and everything. - Rumi

56. Let the beauty of what you love to be what you do. - Rumi

57. Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself. - Rumi

58. The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. - Rumi

59. Shine like the universe is yours. - Rumi

60. Life is a balance between holding on and letting go. - Rumi

61. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. - Rumi