--- title: "9 Quiet Quotes By Rumi" description: "9 Quiet quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Quiet sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/924/rumi-56_ecstasy_and-don-t-think-the-garden-loses-its-ecs_2356212.jpg" --- > [And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/and-don-t-think-the-garden-loses-its-ecstasy-in-winter-it-s-quiet-but/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/924/rumi-56_ecstasy_and-don-t-think-the-garden-loses-its-ecs_2356212.jpg) > [I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-want-to-say-words-that-flame-as-i-say-them-but-i-keep-quiet-and-don/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1e/rumi-56_fit_i-want-to-say-words-that-flame-as-i-say_1168848.jpg) > [A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/a-circle-of-lovely-quiet-people-becomes-the-ring-on-my-finger/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9d/rumi-56_circles_a-circle-of-lovely-quiet-people-becomes_3142886.jpg) > [This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/this-poetry-i-never-know-what-i-m-going-to-say-i-don-t-plan-it-when-i/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/569/rumi-56_plans_this-poetry-i-never-know-what-i-m-going_2303991.jpg) > [Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/last-night-i-begged-the-wise-one-to-tell-me-the-secret-of-the-world/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/rumi-56_last-night_last-night-i-begged-the-wise-one-to-tell_337290.jpg) > [Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/daylight-full-of-small-dancing-particles-and-the-one-great-turning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/284/rumi-56_dance_daylight-full-of-small-dancing-particles_2994914.jpg) > [Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/every-moment-a-taste-of-that-beauty-in-our-mouths-another-stashed-in/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/rumi-56_beauty_every-moment-a-taste-of-that-beauty-in-o_290916.jpg) > [This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/this-silence-this-moment-every-moment-if-it-s-genuinely-inside-you-2/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/706/rumi-56_beauty_this-silence-this-moment-every-moment-if_981712.jpg) > [IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/ignorance-i-didn-t-know-love-would-make-me-this-crazy-with-my-eyes/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50f/rumi-56_alligators_ignorance-i-didn-t-know-love-would-make_2033582.jpg) ## Other authors on Quiet ## 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/quiet/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "9 Quiet Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. 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