Rumi Quotes
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A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.
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The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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Shine like the whole universe is yours.
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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.
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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.
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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.
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You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart. You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts. I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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You are not a drop in a ocean You are entire ocean in a drop
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I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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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
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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.
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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.
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O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you
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I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart.
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I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !
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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.