Top 1780 Quotes & Sayings by Rumi - Page 2

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

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

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

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

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

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

You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

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.

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

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

You show your worth by what you seek.

I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.

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

Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.

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

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

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.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.