Life is all about facing the realities and making sure that bad times would not last for a longer time period. Rumi quotes are all about life, its experiences and what people have to do in order to deal with them.
People don’t like the way they have to live and always want things to work in the way they want. The thing, they do not understand is that life is not just about happiness or pleasure but, people have to face difficulties with courage and strength. Jalal ad Din Muhammad Rumi is among those philosophers who highlighted the problems and their solutions beautifully. He was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, and theologian. His profound wisdom has been a guiding light for millions, revealing the path to self-discovery, love, and spiritual enlightenment.
When people realize that they have to face challenges no matter how hard or difficult they are, life becomes easier because half of the problem lies in not accepting them. Rumi quotes explain that people should have to realize their importance so as to be able to help others. The best thing is that these quotes encourage people to help others and use their skills and abilities to lighten the lives of others.
Rumi quotes also clear one thing that no one could make his/her life better without helping others. Sometimes, it’s about giving value and importance to others and try to solve their problems because real happiness lies in being useful for someone who needs help. Rumi quotes dictate that people have to find out their inner beauty and make the most of their skills in order to make their lives better. In short, they should learn to live for others.
The Most Popular Rumi Quotes
1. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
2. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
3. “Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
4. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
5. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
6. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
7. “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.”
8. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
9. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
10. “In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
11. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
12. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
13. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
14. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
15. “Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.”
16. “When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.”
17. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
18. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
19. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
20. “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.”
21. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
22. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
23. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
24. “When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
25. “Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence.”
26. “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
27. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
28. “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
29. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
30. “Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”
Motivational Rumi Quotes
31. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
32. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation, so everyone will understand the passage, ‘We have opened you.'”
33. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. It will not lead you astray.”
34. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
35. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
36. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
37. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
38. “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.”
39. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
40. “When you go through a hard period, when everything seems to oppose you, when you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and your effort that will lead you to the other side.”
41. “Listen with the ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”
42. “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.”
43. “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
44. “Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky’s mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.”
45. “The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”
46. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”
47. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”
48. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
49. “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.”
50. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!”