Rumi Quotes About Sorrow

• Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Roots

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

• My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

• I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

  Rumi

  Joy, Sorrow, Joys And Sorrows

• I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Drinking, Grief

• Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
  For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

  Rumi

  Hands, Sorrow, Pearls

• My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.

  Rumi

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

• I said: what about my eyes?
  God said: Keep them on the road.
  I said: what about my passion?
  God said: Keep it burning.
  I said: what about my heart?
  God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
  I said: pain and sorrow?
  He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Pain, Eye, Passion

• You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

  Rumi

  Eye, Blood, Sorrow

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

• Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sorrow, Yellow Leaves

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

• Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Grief, Taken

• Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

  Rumi

  Heart, Broken, Sorrow

• Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
  that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

  Rumi

  Heartache, Sorrow

• The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

  Rumi

  Love, Spring, Autumn

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

• Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

  Rumi

  Laughter, Joy, Sorrow

• Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

• Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Names, Peaceful

• To Love is to be God.
  Never will a Lover's chest
  feel any sorrow.
  Never will a Lover's robe
  be touched by mortals.
  Never will a Lover's body
  be found buried in the earth.
  To Love is to be God.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Sorrow

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

• Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

  Rumi

  Fall, Envy, Perfection

• You transform all who are touched by you.
  Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows
  dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

  Rumi

  Joy, Sorrow, Trouble

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