Rumi Inspirational Quotes

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change
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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 26, 2006.

• My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Travel

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

• Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positivity, Soul

• A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Path for Greatness : Work as Spiritual Service". Book by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51, 2000.

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Dance

• Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.72, Penguin UK

• These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, p. 75, 1997.

• Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

  Rumi

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Flames

• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

• Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

• You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

• I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Life Changing

• Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sadness

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.205, Penguin UK

• Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Water

• 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.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual

• And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Journey

• Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Soul, Acting

• Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Spiritual

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 67, 1990.

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