Rumi Quotes
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
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Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.
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You are not a drop in a ocean You are entire ocean in a drop
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I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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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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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty, and wish to see you with a hundred eyes. I am in the house of mercy and my heart is a place of prayer.
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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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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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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.
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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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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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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice. I am scrap wood thrown in your fire, and quickly reduced to smoke.
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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.
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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.
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Come, come, whoever you are, come. Infidel, idolator, Wanderer, fire-worshipper, it doesn't matter, come. Ours is not a convent of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, Come, come again.