War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible. — Rumi Children Copy Share Image
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take… — Rumi Copy Share Image
But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres. — Rumi Celestial Copy Share Image
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. — Rumi Fire Copy Share Image
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Rumi Language Copy Share Image
Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing… — Rumi Freedom Copy Share Image
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty. — Rumi Angel Copy Share Image
If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou… — Rumi Action Copy Share Image
I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from… — Rumi Cry Copy Share Image
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do… — Rumi Copy Share Image
No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey,… — Rumi Bees Copy Share Image
“Excuse my wandering. How can one be orderly with this? It's like counting leaves in a garden, along with the song-notes of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast,… — Rumi Advice Copy Share Image
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant… — Rumi Adversity Copy Share Image
You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like… — Rumi Events Copy Share Image
“The cloud weeps, and then the garden sprouts. The baby cries, and the mother's milk flows. The nurse of creation has said,… — Rumi Parenting Copy Share Image
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Ripened Fruit Do you remember how you came into existence? You may not remember because you arrived a little drunk. Let me… — Rumi Holy spirit Copy Share Image
“The Ripe Fig Now that You live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images, which… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Animals Copy Share Image
Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The young man could stand it no more. "What is this? I've been ambushed by a night patrol in full daylight! Your… — Rumi Holy man Copy Share Image
“AN EMPTY GARLIC "You miss the garden, because you want a small fig from a random tree. You don't meet the beautiful… — Rumi Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
