Rumi quotes

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.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

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

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

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.

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

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

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.

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

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

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

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

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.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

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

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

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.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

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

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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.