Rumi Quotes About Life
-
Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
→ -
I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
→ -
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
→ -
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
→ -
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
→ -
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
→ -
Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.
→ -
What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?
→ -
God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.
→ -
Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
→ -
Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
→ -
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
→ -
You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself
→ -
Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
→ -
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.
→ -
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
→ -
At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
→ -
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
→ -
Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
→ -
The soul is here for its own joy.
→ -
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
→ -
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
→ -
Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion. Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal: it has no interest in a disloyal companion. The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might.
→ -
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
→ -
The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
→ -
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
→ -
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.
→ -
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.
→ -
What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.
→ -
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
→
Related Authors
-
-
Al-Ghazali Theologian -
Nizami Ganjavi Poet -
Farid al-Din Attar Poet -
Khalil Gibran Poet -
Hafez Poet -
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Former President of Turkey -
Muhammad Iqbal Philosopher -
-
Yunus Emre Poet -
Sanai Poet -
Saadi Poet -
-
Abolqasem Ferdowsi Poet -
Coleman Barks Poet -
Omar Khayyam Philosopher -
Rajneesh Guru -
Ibn Arabi Philosopher -
Elif Safak Author -
Avicenna Philosopher