175+ Best Rumi Quotes On Self Love, Happiness, Strength, Life, Soul, Nature

Published January 18, 2023 · · Updated May 12, 2024 · 13 minutes · by Kamerpower ·

175+ Best Rumi Quotes On Self Love, Happiness, Strength, Life, Soul, Nature, Sufism the Universe. Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi is a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and a great Sufi mystic who also wrote in Turkish, Arabic, and Greek. He was also called the honorific Mawlana/Molana, meaning “Our Master”. 

Rumi’s powerful poetry and teachings were concerned with universal themes of love, peace, self-empowerment, and spirituality. He was born in the region of Balkh in Afghanistan. In this article, you will get a collection of inspirational, wise, and powerful Rumi Quotes & Poems to inspire deeper connections and give a more positive outlook on life.

Rumi quotes will expand your perspective on: Love, Life, Time, The Universe. His works have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Turkish, German, Russian, French, Urdu, Arabic and Italian.

Most Famous Rumi Quotes

• “If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”
• “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
• “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.”
• “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”
• “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
• “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
• “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”
• “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
• “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
• “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
• “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
• “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
• “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.”
• “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
• “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
• “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
• “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
• “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
• “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
• “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

Best Rumi quotes on love

1. “On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.” ― Rumi

2.  “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ― Rumi

3. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

4. “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.

5. “Love risks everything and asks for nothing.”

6. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” ― Rumi.

7. “Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.”

8. “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.

9. “Let your teacher be love itself.”

10. “Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”

11. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” ― Rumi

12. “The very center of your Heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on Earth.”

13. “Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.”

14. “If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.” ― Rumi

15. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.” ― Rumi

16. “Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.”

17. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” ― Rumi

18. “Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence.”

19. “Every story is us.”

20. “Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”

21. “Love calls – everywhere and always. We’re sky bound. Are you coming?”

22. “Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”

23. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”

24. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

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

26. “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”

27. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

28. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”

29. “There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.”

30. “I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.”

Rumi quotes about happiness and gratitude

• “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!” ― Rumi
• “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” ― Rumi
• “Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi
• “People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain. If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.” ― Rumi
• “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” ― Rumi
• “Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.” ― Rumi

Rumi quotes about kindness and compassion

• “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”
• “Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.”
• “Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.”
• “My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don’t harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don’t teach what you do not know.”
• “Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.”
• “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
• “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
• “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”
• “Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your heart from the darkness of hate.”
• “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
• “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. 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.”
• “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”
• “If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.”

Other Great Rumi Quotes, about friendship, grief, sorrow and pain, – change and growth – religion and spirituality – strength.

Inspirational Rumi Quotes

• “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
• “Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.”
• “The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.”
• “You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.”
• “When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
• “There is a life force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.”
• “Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.”
• “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
• “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.”
• “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.”
• “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.”
• “Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.”
• “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
• “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it.”
• “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
• “With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.”
• “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
• “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
• “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
• “The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.”

Funny Rumi Quotes

• “I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”
  

• “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved.”

• “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
  

• “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
  

• “Beauty surrounds us, but usually, we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”

• “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”

Short Rumi Quotes

• “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
• “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
• “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.”
• “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
• “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”
• “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
• “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
• “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”
• “The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.”
• “The source of now is here.”
• “Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”
• “Let yourself become living poetry.”
• “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”
• “Be an empty page, untouched by words.”
• “Sit, be still, and listen.”
• “Patience is the key to joy.”
• “If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
• “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
• “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
• “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
• “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”

Other Famous Rumi Quotes on love, happiness, soul, on life

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray.”

“Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.”

“I want to sing like the bird’s sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

“When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”

“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour.”

“I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”

“In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”

“If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

“There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrongdoing. I’ll meet you there.”

“Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.” 

“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

“And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”

“Dance until you shatter yourself.”

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”

“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”

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

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”

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

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

“Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

“What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”

Rumi Quotes on Life

“In this mob of I’s inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I’m wandering, but don’t start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I’ll do then. Every moment I’m thrown by your story. One moment it’s happy, and I’m singing. One moment it’s sad, and I’m weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I’m all light. It’s not so bad, this arrangement, actually.” ― Rumi

“Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.” ― Rumi.

“Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins.”
“What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.”
“Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
“Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.”

“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light.”
“In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
“This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober.”
“Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
“The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.”
“Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.”
“Let yourself become living poetry.”
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.”
“Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”
“There is a fountain inside you. Don’t walk around with an empty bucket.”

“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..”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished.”
“This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward.”
“Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.”
“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”

“You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You’re some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won’t have to become coins.”
“Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens.”
“You’ve gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won’t make you wild. It’s fire. Give up, if you don’t understand by this time that your living is firewood.”

“Don’t put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome’s passionate murmur.”
“And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.”

“Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don’t mind that you’ve been given a dirty cup.”
“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.”
“Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you’ve grown, lifting.”
“I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

Rumi Quotes on Nature

• “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ― Rumi
• “Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
• “Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.”
• “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.” ― Rumi.
• “Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.”
• “Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings…. Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you’re sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”
• “Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.”

Rumi Quotes on Beauty

• “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
• “The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”
• “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.”
• “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.”
  
• “See the beauty around you. Break out of your boundaries. Reach out to what makes your life more meaningful.”
  
• “You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?”
  
• “The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.”
  
• “Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.”
• “I see my beauty in you.”
• “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
• “The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”
• “On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.”
  
• “Every cloud has a silver lining. Look beyond your bubble to see the beauty in the world.”
  
• “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
• “Let the beauty of what you love to be what you do.”
• “Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”
• “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened…. Let the beauty we love be what we do.”

Rumi Quotes on Happiness

• “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

• “Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.”“It may be the satisfaction I need depends on my going away.

• So that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.”“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”

• “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”“O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.”

• “No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.”

• “If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.”

Rumi Quotes on Silence

1. “Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.”

2. “Be quiet. Find acquaintances with silence. Go inside, delve into your heart. Take a day off from the clamor.”

3. “Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.”

4. “This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.”

5. “Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.”

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

7. “There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

8. “A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.”

9. “But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.”

10. “Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way.”

11. “I will be waiting here…. For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!”

Top 10 Rumi poems tittle

• The Gifts of the Beloved. 
• A Prayer.
• This is How I Would Die.
• The Flame of Love.
• Love Sounds the Music of the Spheres. 
• When I Die. 
• Thou and I. 
• I Am Thine and Thou Art Mine .
• If You are Seeking, Seek Us with Joy.