Rumi Quotes - Tumblr Posts
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
—Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
—Rumi
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
—Rumi
“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
—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
“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.”
—Rumi
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
—Rumi
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
—Rumi
“We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
—Rumi
“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”
—Rumi
“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.”
—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
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
—Rumi
“Love will find its way through all languages on its own.”
—Rumi
“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
—Rumi
“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.”
—Rumi
“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.”
—Rumi
“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”
—Rumi