Rumi was a poet of the 13th century, he was born on 30th Sep 1207 and died on 17th Dec 1273. His full name was Jalal al Din Muhammad Rumi. He was born in Tajikistan Rumi was a poet and had written many ghazal poems. His poems mainly focus on love in the world. His poetry covered four categories : the quatrains, odes of the Divan, the six books of the Masnavi. He was one of the most famous poets of the time. HIs arts, poems were mainly written in Persian and Turkish, Arabic, Greek.
His quotes are famous worldwide today also. The love, life, nature he covers and depicts in his Quotes are followed and loved in the world.
Some of the top and famous Quotes of the great poets of all the time are covered in the article, to connect you with the works and arts of the poet Rumi.
Rumi Quotes
- Only from the heart you can touch the sky
- The wound is the place where the lights enters you
- God turns what’s comfortable
- The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
- This love is the rose that blooms forever.
- Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.
- Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
- You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
- Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
- I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
- What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
- Let silence take you to the core of life.
- Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
- Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
- Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.
- When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
- The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
- Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
- Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
- You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
- The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.
- The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
- Love is the whole thing.We are only pieces.
- 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.
- Give your weakness to one who helps.
- I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
- Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
- Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
- 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.
- I don’t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
- The cure for pain is in the pain.
- A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.
- You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
- Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.
- Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
- Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
- Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
- Silence is the language of god,all else is poor translation.
- If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
- Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
- We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
- You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
- I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
- The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.
- I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
- 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.
- 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.
- Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
- Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
- Shine like the whole universe is yours.
- The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
- Life is a balance of holding on and letting go
- Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything
- Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge
- The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.
- I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul
- 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?
- Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.
- In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal
- 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.
- Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Conclusion
Rumi world has been translated in many different languages in different parts of the world. His poetries and works are one of the most read in the world and his works are also one of the best selling in the US.
