Rumi Quotes

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

— Rumi

Forget safety.Live where you fear to live.Destroy your reputation.Be notorious.

— Rumi

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

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

— Rumi

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

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

— Rumi

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

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.

— Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

— Rumi

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

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

— Rumi

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

— Rumi

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

— Rumi

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

— Rumi
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