--- title: "11 Empty Quotes By Rumi" description: "11 Empty quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Empty sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d08/rumi-56_buckets_there-is-a-fountain-inside-you-don-t-wal_776405.jpg" --- > [There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-fountain-inside-you-don-t-walk-around-with-an-empty-bucket/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d08/rumi-56_buckets_there-is-a-fountain-inside-you-don-t-wal_776405.jpg) > [Be an empty page, untouched by words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/be-an-empty-page-untouched-by-words/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa0/rumi-56_empty_be-an-empty-page-untouched-by-words-2839_2839885.jpg) > [What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-a-relief-to-be-empty-then-god-can-live-your-life/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/480/rumi-56_emptiness_what-a-relief-to-be-empty-then-god-can-l_2831453.jpg) > [Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/every-moment-the-sunlight-is-totally-empty-and-totally-full/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/rumi-56_empty_every-moment-the-sunlight-is-totally-emp_811489.jpg) > [Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/live-at-the-empty-heart-of-paradox-i-ll-dance-with-you-there-cheek-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/rumi-56_cheeks_live-at-the-empty-heart-of-paradox-i-ll_1016129.jpg) > [I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-honor-those-who-try-to-rid-themselves-of-any-lying-who-empty-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/012/rumi-56_being-there_i-honor-those-who-try-to-rid-themselves_1169269.jpg) > [When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/when-you-are-with-everyone-but-me-you-re-with-no-one-when-you-are/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/024/rumi-56_empty_when-you-are-with-everyone-but-me-you-re_1794703.jpg) > [If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-you-were-a-blade-of-grass-or-a-tiny-flower-i-will-pitch-my-tent-in/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1e/rumi-56_blades_if-you-were-a-blade-of-grass-or-a-tiny-f_1117883.jpg) > [If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-you-put-on-shoes-that-are-too-tight-and-walk-out-across-an-empty/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/400/rumi-56_before-sleeping_if-you-put-on-shoes-that-are-too-tight-a_305150.jpg) > [Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/some-huge-work-goes-on-growing-how-could-one-person-s-words-matter/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/rumi-56_answers_some-huge-work-goes-on-growing-how-could_3147525.jpg) > [I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-wonder-from-these-thousand-of-me-s-which-one-am-i-listen-to-my-cry/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83c/rumi-56_blades_i-wonder-from-these-thousand-of-me-s-whi_2304791.jpg) ## Other authors on Empty ## More by Rumi > [The love religion is all that is written here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-love-religion-is-all-that-is-written-here/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/and-so-it-is-that-both-the-devil-and-the-angelic-spirit-present-us/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-began-as-mineral-we-emerged-into-plant-life-and-into-the-animal/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-morning-inside-you-waiting-to-burst-open-into-light/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/sometimes-you-hear-a-voice-through-the-door-calling-you-this-turning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-ve-so-distracted-me-your-absence-fans-my-love-don-t-ask-how-then/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-something-to-be-said-for-anyone-who-sits-alone-with-dignity/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/tis-easy-to-break-an-idol-very-easy-to-regard-the-self-as-easy-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/today-let-us-swim-wildly-joyously-in-gratitude/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [I have no name for what circles so perfectly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-no-name-for-what-circles-so-perfectly/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-draws-friends-together-does-not-conform-to-the-laws-of-nature/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We are born of love. Love is our mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-are-born-of-love-love-is-our-mother/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/water-stories-the-body-all-the-things-we-do-are-mediums-that-hid-and/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-your-heart-isn-t-yet-illumined-be-awake-always-be-a-seeker-of-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-came-back-to-you-because-i-could-not-find-the-kind-and-decent/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/empty/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "11 Empty Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is a fountain inside you. 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