115 Inspiring Rumi Quotes That Will Transform Your Life and Teach You to Trust Yourself

Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, and theologian that spoke from the heart. His influence and words found in quotes by Rumi transcend time, national borders, and ethnic divisions. His words of wisdom speak to EVERY human and have had a profound effect on civilizations over the past 7 centuries.

Rumi’s words continue to inspire many people today and his words are packed with a lot of meaning. Without further ado, here are 115 inspiring Rumi quotes that will transform your life and teach you to love and trust yourself.

I hope you enjoy these inspiring Rumi quotes…

1) “Let silence be the art you practice.” – Rumi

2) “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi

3) “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” – Rumi

4) “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.” – Rumi

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

6) “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi

7) “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” – Rumi

8) “If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.” – Rumi

9) “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi

10) “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi

11) “If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.” – Rumi

12) “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.” – Rumi

13) “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.” – Rumi

14) “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” – Rumi

15) “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” – Rumi

Quotes by Rumi are filled with love.

16) “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi

17) “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?” – Rumi

18) “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” – Rumi

19) “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

20) “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” – Rumi

21) “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi

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

23) “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” – Rumi

24) “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” – Rumi

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

26) “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

27) “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” – Rumi

28) “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.” – Rumi

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

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

Rumi quotes about life…

31) “Be patient where you sit in the dark, the dawn is coming…” – Rumi

32) “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.” – Rumi

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

34) “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” – Rumi

35) “Dance until you shatter yourself.” – Rumi

36) “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

37) “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi

38) “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” – Rumi

39) “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” – Rumi

40) “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” – Rumi

41) “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi

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

43) “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.” – Rumi

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

45) “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” – Rumi

Rumi quotes about soul and love.

46) “Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?” – Rumi

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

48) “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. Love embraces all.” – Rumi

49) “Make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more separation of you and your home God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you’re alive” – Rumi

50) “Sit, be still, and listen.” – Rumi

51) “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” – Rumi

52) “Patience is the key to joy.” – Rumi

53) “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.” – Rumi

54) “Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.” – Rumi

55) “Let yourself become living poetry.” – Rumi

56) “Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other.” – Rumi

57) “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.” – Rumi

58) “Be an empty page, untouched by words.” – Rumi

59) “The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.” – Rumi

60) “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.” – Rumi

Rumi quotes on healing and letting the Light enter you.

61) “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi

62) “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” – Rumi

63) “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” – Rumi

64) “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?” – Rumi

65) “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.” – Rumi

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

67) “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.” – Rumi

68) “The source of now is here.” – Rumi

69) “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.” – Rumi

70) “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” – Rumi

71) “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” – Rumi

72) “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.” – Rumi

73) “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.” – Rumi

74) “Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.” – Rumi

75) “The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.” – Rumi

Rumi quotes urging you to follow your heart.

76) “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” – Rumi

77) “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi

78) “‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.” – Rumi

79) “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.” – Rumi

80) “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.” – Rumi

81) “The Universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” – Rumi

82) “I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.” – Rumi

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

84) “Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky’s mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.” – Rumi

85) “May these vows and this marriage be blessed.” – Rumi

God has given everybody a talent at birth. Find it and use it well.

86) “Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi

87) “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. What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi

88) “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.” – Rumi

89) “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi

90) “I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There’s no room for lack of trust or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.” – Rumi

Rumi quotes on learning how to love.

91) “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

92) “A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.” – Rumi

93) “What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?” – Rumi

94) “It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.” – Rumi

95) “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” – Rumi

96) “What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi

97) “Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.” – Rumi

98) “If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.” – Rumi

99) “Open your hands if you want to be held.” – Rumi

100) “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.” – Rumi

Love is the bridge…

101) “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi

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

103) “Let silence take you to the core of life.” – Rumi

104) “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.” – Rumi

105) “When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.” – Rumi

God has given everybody a talent at birth. Find it and use it well.

106) “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi

This one reminds me of Steve Harvey’s ‘jump’ speech he made after a taping of Family Feud.

107) “We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi

108) “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” – Rumi

109) “If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.” – Rumi

110) “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.” – Rumi

111) “Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.” – Rumi

112) “Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.” – Rumi

113) “This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.” – Rumi

114) “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” – Rumi

I hope you enjoyed these inspiring quotes by Rumi!

115) “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi

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