Flower Quotes by Rumi

Everything is soul and flowering.

— Rumi

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

— Rumi

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

— Rumi

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

— Rumi

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

— Rumi

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

— Rumi

What is the Heart? A flower opening...

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What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose.

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I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

— Rumi

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

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There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

— Rumi

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

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

— Rumi

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

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Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I.

— Rumi

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

— Rumi

Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you…

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If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence…

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I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this…

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Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different.…

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True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs…

— Rumi

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on,…

— Rumi

A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in…

— Rumi

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't…

— Rumi

Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I…

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I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am…

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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

— Rumi

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

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In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

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Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching.

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Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

— Rumi

“When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.”

— Rumi

A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.

— Rumi

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

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Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

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Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

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

— Rumi

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

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To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

— Rumi