Rumi Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

2. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

3. Do not seek water, get thirst.

4. Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

5. God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one The Essential Rumi

6. 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.

7. How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

8. I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.

9. I choose to love you in silence…For in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in loneliness…For in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distance…For distance will shield me from pain,I choose to kiss you in the wind…For the wind is gentler than my lips,I choose to hold you in my dreams…For in my dreams, you have no end.

10. 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.

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

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

13. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

14. Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
yet you worry what people are saying. The Essential Rumi

15. Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

16. 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.

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

18. 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.

19. 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.

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

21. You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

22. A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence.

23. Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?Why would you refuse to givethis love to anyone?Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!They swim in the huge, fluid freedom. The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

24. Aroused PassionOh GodLet all lovers be contentGive them happy endingsLet their lives be celebrationsLet their hearts dance in the fire of your loveMy sweetheartYou have aroused my passionYour touch has filled me with desireI am no longer separate from youThese are precious momentsI beseech youDon’t let me waitLet me merge with you The Love Poems of Rumi

25. Every object, every being,is a jar full of delight.Be a connoisseur,and taste with caution.Any wine will get you high.Judge like a king, and choose the purest,the ones unadulterated with fear,or some urgency about "what's needed."Drink the wine that moves youas a camel moves when it's been untied,and is just ambling about. The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

26. I said, I just want to know you and then disappear.She said, Knowing me does not mean dying.

27. I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

28. If in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, behold the passing away of this world and this time! مثنوی معنوی

29. If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

30. If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.