Quotes by Rumi

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 originally from Greater Khorasan. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries.

The best Quotes and Sayings

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Beauty, GardenRumi

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We are born of love; Love is our mother.

Love, MotherRumi

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

Rumi

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

Singing, BirdsRumi

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

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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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.

LoveRumi

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

Words, AppearanceRumi

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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Rumi

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