155 Captivating Rumi Quotes that Celebrate the Beauty of Love!
Last updated on May 3rd, 2024 at 09:51 am
Rumi’s poetry is a testament to the power of love and its ability to transform us. Through his use of the lover and beloved metaphor, he invites us to seek union with the divine and to surrender ourselves to the transformative power of love.
Rumi reminds us that love has the power to bring us together, to transcend our differences and to help us better understand ourselves and the divine. His words inspire us to open our hearts to love and to embrace its transformative potential in our lives.
Some of Rumi’s inspiring and popular love quotes include:
To Love is to reach God. – Rumi
Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart. – Rumi
There is a subtle truth: whatever you love you are. – Rumi
If love were only spiritual, the practices of fasting and prayer would not exist. – Rumi
Love has come to rule and transform; stay awake, my heart, stay awake. – Rumi
Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. – Rumi
And into the circle of love. – Rumi
You are the soul of the soul of the Universe, and your name is Love. – Rumi
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. – Rumi
You’ll never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me. – Rumi
Your love has pierced me to the depths, its ecstasy entwines both bone and nerve. – Rumi
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit. – Rumi
A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. – Rumi
At a distance you only see my light… come closer and know that I am you. – Rumi
Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, be drunk in love. Since love is everything that exists. – Rumi
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. – Rumi
Do not ask what love can make or do. Look at the colours of the world. – Rumi
I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. – Rumi
If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn’t a life. – Rumi
With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love. – Rumi
A lover’s life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart. – Rumi
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. – Rumi
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. – Rumi
Advice doesn’t help lovers! They’re not the kind of mountain stream you can build a dam across. – Rumi
I wait with silent passion for one gesture, one glance from you. – Rumi
I wrote your name in my heart and forever it will stay. – Rumi
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. – Rumi
I will whisper secrets in your ear, just nod and be silent. – Rumi
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. – Rumi
It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come. – Rumi
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. – Rumi
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. – Rumi
Let your teacher be love itself. – Rumi
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. It will never lead you astray. – Rumi
Love is beyond either condition; without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. – Rumi
Love will find its way through all languages on its own. – Rumi
Lovers find secret places in this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. – Rumi
The sky itself reels with Love. – Rumi
The torch of love is all sweetness. – Rumi
There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion. – Rumi
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? – Rumi
This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight. – Rumi
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. – Rumi
Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two. – Rumi
With love, you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face. – Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. – Rumi
You are my wine, my joy, my garden, my springtime, my slumber, my repose, without you, I can’t cope. – Rumi
You are the comfort of my soul in the season of sorrow. You are the wealth of my spirit in the heartbreak of loss. – Rumi
You have been walking the water’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. – Rumi
Through love, burning fire is pleasing light. – Rumi
Through love, bitter things seem sweet. – Rumi
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are. – Rumi
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. – 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
The Heart is your Student, for love is the only way we learn. – Rumi
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. – Rumi
The Glance of Love is Crystal Clear. – Rumi
The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love. – Rumi
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart’s bad manners. – Rumi
If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. – Rumi
If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your Heart. – Rumi
If you are too careful, LOVE will not find you. – Rumi
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows. – Rumi
If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself. – Rumi
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. – Rumi
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. – Rumi
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing. – Rumi
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. – Rumi
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. – Rumi
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe. – Rumi
What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart. – Rumi
We are born of love; Love is our mother. – Rumi
Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. – Rumi
Only Love can explain itself. – Rumi
Only from the heart can you touch the sky. – Rumi
On the path of love, we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter. – Rumi
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love. – Rumi
Love is the religion, and the universe is the book. – Rumi
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. – Rumi
Love is the bridge between you and everything. – Rumi
Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars. – Rumi
Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence. – Rumi
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. – Rumi
Go find yourself first so you can also find me. – Rumi
Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being. – Rumi
For the thirst to possess your love, is worth my blood a hundred times. – Rumi
There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for. – Rumi
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? – Rumi
Love is the vital core of the soul. – Rumi
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces. – Rumi
My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you. – Rumi
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. – Rumi
Remember, the way you make love is the way God will be with you. – Rumi
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. – Rumi
Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved… my only possession is my name. – Rumi
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent. – Rumi
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. – Rumi
My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be. – Rumi
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. – Rumi
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one. – Rumi
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love. – Rumi
Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! – Rumi
My heart, so precious. I won’t trade for a hundred thousand souls. – Rumi
My Sight, my Heart, my Life… all three words I have woven into one: Love. – Rumi
Protect yourself… from your own thoughts. – Rumi
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd’s love filling you. – Rumi
Love is the sea where intellect drowns. – Rumi
There are no edges to my loving now. – Rumi
There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them. – Rumi
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road. – Rumi
In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs and the floor dances. – Rumi
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. – Rumi
Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world. – Rumi
While reason sees only barriers, Love knows secret paths. – Rumi
Be certain in the religion of Love there are no believers or unbelievers. Love embraces all. – Rumi
Believe in love’s infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life. – Rumi
I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. – Rumi
I will be waiting here, for your silence to break, for your soul to shake, for your love to wake. – Rumi
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. – Rumi
You will learn by reading, but you will understand with love. – Rumi
Love is a river. Drink from it. – Rumi
Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery. – Rumi
You have within you more love than you could ever understand. – Rumi
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. – Rumi
I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart. – Rumi
I hear nothing in my ear but your voice. Heart has plundered mind of all its eloquence. Love writes a transparent calligraphy, so on the empty page my soul can read and recollect. – Rumi
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window. – Rumi
Love comes on strong, consuming herself, unabashed. – Rumi
I crave a love so deep the ocean would be jealous. – Rumi
I don’t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. – Rumi
May this marriage be full of laughter, our everyday paradise. – Rumi
Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there. – Rumi
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. – Rumi
I said, ‘I just want to know you and then disappear.’ She said, ‘Knowing me does not mean dying.’ – Rumi
Love is a boundless ocean in which heavens are but foam. – Rumi
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. – Rumi
Lose yourself, lose yourself in this love. When you lose yourself in this love, you will find everything. – Rumi
Love cannot be held long within categories, likewise the poetry celebrating love. You might say that love loves confusion and not be far wrong. Love is metamorphosis, rapid and radical, agile, full of vigor and levity. – Rumi
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. – Rumi
Love risks everything and asks for nothing. – Rumi
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within. – Rumi
I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me. – Rumi
I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine. – Rumi
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. – Rumi
If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted. – Rumi
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you… This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. – Rumi
Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free. – Rumi
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. – Rumi
Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart. – Rumi
If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not hide from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself. – Rumi
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. – Rumi
If you love someone, you are always joined with them — in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife. Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love. – Rumi