Top 1780 Quotes & Sayings by Rumi - Page 3

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

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.

This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets The moon sets But they are not gone.

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t know your own worth.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.

Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

While the mind sees only boundaries, Love knows the secret way there.

Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf.

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

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

Be suspicious of what you want.

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.

When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening . . . . I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal . . . . The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance. I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres, The scale of creation, the rise and the fall. I am what is and is not . . . I am the soul in all.

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

Appear as you are, or be as you appear.

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

Lamps are different, but light is the same.

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.

The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.

The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back.

The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.

I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.

All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.

Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

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

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it It's too bad that you want to be someone else You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.