Rumi

12 Quotes

Quotes by Rumi

1

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

2

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

3

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

4

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

5

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

6

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

7

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty.

8

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

9

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

10

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

11

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

12

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.