Jalal al-Din Rumi Quotes

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

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

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

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

"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again."

"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."

"We are born of love; Love is our mother."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

"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."

"Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created."

"Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine."

"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."

"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it."

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

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."

"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?"

"Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom."

"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity."

"When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine."

"Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues."

"There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger."

"Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers."

"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."

"May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise."

"I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast."

"If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face."

"Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever."

"The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love."

"Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise."