Inspirational Quotes by Rumi — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“Go back,”

“Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place.”

“Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”

“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”

“My heart is so small”

“Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.”

“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.”

“Be motivated like the falcon,”

“It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.”

“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”

“If you are seeking, seek us with joy”

“Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

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

“Every object, every being,”

“A wealth you cannot imagine”

“Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?”

“I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.”

“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”

“You dance inside my chest,”

“I will soothe you and heal you,”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing”

“Lovers find secret places”

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you”

“Do not seek water, get thirst.”

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

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

“Woman is the light of God.”

“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.”

“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 potential.”

““To live without you”

““You dance inside my chest,”

““I am yours.”

“Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”

“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”

“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.”

““I choose to love you in silence…”

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

“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.”

“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.”

““When I am with you, we stay up all night.”

““Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing”

““If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.”

“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”