50+ Inspirational Rumi Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Light

"What you seek is seeking you."

- Rumi

"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction."

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

- Rumi

"When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

- Rumi

"You are not a drop in the ocean, you the entire ocean in a drop."

- Rumi

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

- Rumi

"At the center of your being, you have the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want."

- Rumi

"As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears."

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

- Rumi

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen."

- Rumi

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

- Rumi

"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."

- Rumi

"We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."

- Rumi

"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you."

- Rumi

"There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that."

- Rumi

"Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?"

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."

- Rumi

"When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be."

- Lao Tzu

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."

- Rumi

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."

- Rumi

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

- Rumi

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

- Rumi

"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home."

- Rumi

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."

- Rumi

"Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence."

- 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."

- Rumi

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

- James E. Faust

"You have within you more love than you could ever understand."

- Rumi

"Don’t be satisfied with stories. How things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

- Rumi

"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

- Rumi

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."

- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

- Rumi

"Your heart knows the way, run in that direction."

- Rumi

"All doubt, despair and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love."

- Rumi

"We are born of love: love is our mother."

- Rumi

"This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are."

- Rumi

"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?"

- Rumi

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there."

- Rumi

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."

- Rumi

"Through love, thorns become roses."

- Rumi

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you"

- Rumi

"Giving thanks for abundance is greater than the abundance itself."

- Rumi

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

- Rumi

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal."

- Rumi

"Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots."

- Rumi

"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."

- Rumi

"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."

- Rumi

"Know that one day, your pain will become your cure."

- Rumi

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

- Rumi

"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."

- Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

"When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray."

- Rumi

"You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising."

- Rumi

"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"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."

- Rumi

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them."

- Rumi

"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."

- Rumi

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."

- Rumi Jalalud-Din