99 Best Rumi Quotes: The Ancient Wisdom

 

99 Best Rumi Quotes:

1. Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

2. The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.

3. Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smatter than you think and twice as beautiful as you ever imagined.

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

5. The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

6. As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

7. It is your road, and you are as alone. Others may walk it with you but no one can walk it for you.

8. Raise you words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

9. See through the eyes of compassion. Listen with the ears of tolerance. Speak with the language of love.

10. We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us!

11. Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on, get drunk.

12. Practice patience. It is the essence of prays. Have patience for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much.

13. Have patience. Patience is the key to all relieves.

14. Wisdom tells us we are not worthy. Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.

15. This being human is a guesthouse. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably, the dark thought, the shame, and the malice. Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide form beyond.

16. If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

17.You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

18. When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

19. The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

20. Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away, so that there is only you and Him.

21. Your task is not to seek for love, but to merely seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

22. Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken.  But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

23. Appear as you are and be as you appear.

24. I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind, just in case, heart might stop, mind can forget, I love them with my soul. The soul never stops and forgets.

25. Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we flash and spirit at the same time. Within everyone, there is light and shadow, good and the evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being.

26. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed, but complete. Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

27. A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle.

28. Do not look back. No one knows how the word ever began.  Do not fear the future. Nothing lasts forever.  If you dwell on the past or the future, you will miss the moment.

29. Don’t get lost in your pain. Know that one day your pain will become your cure.

30. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, do not harbor bad thoughts. Do not gossip and do not teach what you do not know.

31. Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside you.

32. The mind says that there is nothing beyond the physical world.  The Heart says that there is. And I have been there many times.

33. Don’t be sad because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

34. Where the lips are silent, heart has thousand tongues.

35. Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. You can have all the doors closed; a secret path will be there for you that no one knows.

36. You cannot see yet but there are so many paradises are at the end of this path.

37. Be grateful. It is easy to thank after attaining what you want. Thank before having what you want.

38. Silence gives answers.

39.Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a Sun, and who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

40. In every religion, there is love, yet love has no religion.

41. You are born with potential. You are born with goodness and trust. You are born with ideals and dreams. You are born with greatness. You are born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings, learn to use them and fly.

42. Last night I begged the wise to tell me the secret of the world. Gently he whispered, be quiet. The secret cannot be spoken. It is wrapped in silence.

43. Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bow of your heart so that fresh green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots so that new hidden beneath have the room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

44. When love is not accepted, move on. When love is not appreciated, walk away. Hopefully, time will teach what real love is.

45. You don’t live on the earth. You are passing through it.

46.While the mind sees only boundaries, love knows the secret way there.

47. What you are seeking is also seeking you.

48. I said: what about my eyes?       He said: Keep them on the road.      I said: What about my passion?      He said: Keep it burning.      I said: What about my heart?      He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?      I said: Pain and sorrow.      He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light  enters you.”

49. Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

50. Find the sweetness in your heart, then you can find the sweetness in others’ heart.

51. If you want money more than anything, you will be bought and sold whole life.

52. The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

53. When the word pushes to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.

54. Be patient, where you sit in the dark, the dawn is coming.

55. Be foolish when you are in love, because love is all there is.

56. If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

57. Be lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone soul-heal, walk out of your house like a Sheppard.

58. And don’t think that the garden loses its ecstasy and winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

59. The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

60. You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring you. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the origin. It’s not good giving my heart or soul because you already have these.  So I bought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

61. Whenever we managed to love without expectation, calculation, negotiation; we are indeed in heaven.

62. Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside of yourself, everything that you want, you are already that.

63. I always thought that I was me. But no! I was you, and never knew it.

64. Beyond the rightness or wrongness; there is a field, I will meet you there!

65. Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. Be like the Sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ fault. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the earth for modesty. Appear as you are, be as you appear.

66. I am the dust in the sunlight. I am the bowl of the sun. I am the mist in the morning, the breath of the evening.  I am the spark in the stone, the glen of gold in the meadow, the rose in the nightingale drunk with its fragrance. I am the chain of being, the circle of the sphere, the scale of creation, the rise and the fall. I am what is and is not. I am the soul in all.

67. You sow your worth by what you seek.

68. Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who is not looking for to be richer or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest in his own personality. He is free. When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.

69. Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

70. Our greatest strength lies in our gentleness and tenderness in our heart.

71. To love is human; to feel pain is human, yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

72. Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears on the roots.

73. Happy is the moment when we sat together with two forms and two faces, yet one soul, you and I.

74. Every leaf that grows will tell you what you sow will their fruit. So if you any sense, my friend, do not plant anything but love.

75. What comes will go. What is found will be lost again. But what you are is beyond the coming and going and beyond description.

76. Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Somethings that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.

77. Be soulful, be kind, be in love. Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever.

78. I know that everything gave you comes back to me. So I gave you my life hoping that you will come back to me.

79. Don’t sit and wait. Get out there. Feel life. Touch the sun and immerse the sea.

80. If someone asks what is love. Answer dissolving the will.

81. Yesterday is gone and took away its tail, Today we must live a fresh story again.

82. When you go through a hard period, when everything seems to oppose you, when feel you cannot even bear one more minute, never give up, because it is the time and place that the course will divert.

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

84. Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less. On bound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow, from the world and mostly from himself.

85. Speak little. Learn the worlds of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

86. This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'be more silent. Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

87. Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

88. You think because you understand one, you must also understand two, because one and one make two. But you must also understand ‘and’.

89. “I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn’t find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn’t find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn’t find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.”

90. Don’t dismiss the heart, even if it’s filled with sorrow. God’s treasures are buried in broken hearts.

91. Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

92. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

93. This is now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.

94. Whatever leaves the corner of your mouth, trust that.

95. It is love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.

96. To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

97. One of the marvels of the world the sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key its hands.

98. All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.

99. I want that love that moved the mountains.           I want that love that split the ocean.           I want that love that made the winds tremble.           I want that love that roared like thunder.           I want that love that will raise the dead.           I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy.           I want that love that is the silence of eternity.”