Words matter. These are the best Rumi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
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.
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
