Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi

mystic.Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar and theologian. His quotes will transform your life for the better, they are based upon love, hope, inspiration.

Rumi Quotes and Sayings

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” ― Rumi

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” – Rumi

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.”

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

However much we describe and explain love, when we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.”

Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.”

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer.”

Short Rumi Quotes

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

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

I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.”

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.” ― Rumi

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” – Rumi

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.” ― Rumi

Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi

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.” ― Rumi

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