Rumi Quotes

ما تبحث عنه يبحث عنك

When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.

Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep!

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.

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

You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.

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.