Most Powerful Quotes by Rumi to Guide You Through Life’s Journey
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, known as Rumi, was a famous poet from the 13th century. He was born in 1207 in Balkh (now in Afghanistan) and later lived in Konya (now in Turkey). Rumi was also a teacher and a Sufi mystic. He wrote simple but powerful poems about love, the soul, and God.
His most famous book is the Masnavi, which teaches lessons about life and peace. Rumi’s words are not just for one religion — they speak to everyone. Today, quotes by Rumi are loved all over the world because they give hope, wisdom, and comfort to people looking for meaning in life.
Powerful Quotes by Rumi
“At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language door and open the love window.
The moon won’t use the door, only the window.”
— Rumi
“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
“Raise your words, not voice.”
“It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“We are half angel, half beast.
Half snake, half fish.
The fish draws us toward water,
the snake toward the earth.
We are forever in battle.”
“If everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”
“You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
“Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames.”
“You are searching the world for treasure but the real treasure is yourself.”
“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”
“One of the marvels of the world is the sight of a soul sitting in a prison with the key in its hand.”
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
“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.”
“I am yours. Don’t give me back to me.”
“If you desire to heal, let yourself fall ill.”
“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
“It’s Time To Think Outside Your Comfort Zone.”
“Violence And Anger Is Never A Solution.”
“In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don’t run away from this dying. Whoever’s not killed for love is dead meat.”
“At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I’ll sit up and sing”
“I will be waiting here. For your silence to break, for your soul to shake, for your love to wake!”
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.”
“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
“My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there”
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
“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.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
“Why Waste Your Time With Those Who Think Otherwise?”
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.”
“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”
“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
“Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
“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.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
“Two types of people are never satisfied. The lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“Love is the whole thing.”
“We are only pieces.”
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.”
“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.”
“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
“Try something different. Surrender.
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
“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.”
“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”
“Look past your thoughts, so you may
drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”
“Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.”
“If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.”
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
“The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
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“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
“In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane!”
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us”
“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.”
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth”
“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
“I want to be where your barefoot walks because maybe before you step, you’ll look at the ground. I want that blessing.”
“I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.”
“To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it?
“To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
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“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope.
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
“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.”
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“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.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
“Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk
and we’re at the edge of the roof.”
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.Destroy your reputation.Be notorious.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
“You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.”
“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.”
“The lamps are different, but the Light is the same.”
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“Poems are rough notations for the music we are.”
“Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.”
“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.”
“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.”
“You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
“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.”
“You think because you understand ‘one’ you must also understand ‘two’, because one and one make two. But you must also understand ‘and’.”
“Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
“This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say.”
“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
“Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for I see you there, my dear?”
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
“She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.”
“The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and fall, they’re given wings.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
Conclusion
Rumi’s words continue to light the way for those seeking truth, love, and purpose. His poetry reminds us to look within, trust the journey, and stay connected to our hearts. Whether you’re facing struggles, searching for peace, or simply need inspiration, these powerful quotes by Rumi offer timeless wisdom for every step of life’s path. Let his gentle voice guide you, and may his words stay with you wherever you go.
