Rumi Inspirational Quotations

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

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. Quotes

May these vows and this marriage be blessed. Quotes

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

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Quotes

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. Quotes

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. Quotes

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

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. Quotes

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

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? Quotes

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. Quotes

Either give me more wine or leave me alone. Quotes

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. Quotes

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? Quotes

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Quotes

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. Quotes

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. Quotes

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. Quotes

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

You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck! Quotes

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Quotes

Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears. Quotes

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

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Quotes

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now. Quotes

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings. Quotes

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. Quotes

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note. Quotes

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? Quotes

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. Quotes

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. Quotes

Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow. Quotes

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. Quotes

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames Quotes

Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care! Quotes

You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you Quotes

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. Quotes

Dance until you shatter yourself. Quotes

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. Quotes

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? Quotes

Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named "tree," sometimes "sun," sometimes "ocean," sometimes "cloud," one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life. Quotes

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Quotes

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Quotes

What you seek is seeking you. Quotes

Be suspicious of what you want. Quotes

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another. Quotes

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come. Quotes

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Quotes

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute? Quotes

Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do. Quotes

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

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

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Quotes

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there." Quotes

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. Quotes

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it. Quotes

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it. Quotes

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Quotes

Open your hands if you want to be held. Quotes

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open! Quotes

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning. Quotes