Quotes by Rumi

“I choose to love you in silenceFor in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in lonelinessFor in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distanceFor distance will s...”

“When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”

“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.”

“In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.”

“I am yours.Don't give myself back to me.”

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

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so...”

“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

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

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

“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?”

“Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?”

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you ...”

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

“Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.”

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noahit makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”