Rumi Quotes

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.

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.

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.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

This is the essence of all sciences – that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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.

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.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

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

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.

The Inspiration You Seek
Is Already Within You.
Be Silent And Listen.

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.