Rumi

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning,…

— Rumi

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

— Rumi

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

— Rumi

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.

— Rumi

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that…

— Rumi

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at…

— Rumi

Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.

— Rumi

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

— Rumi

And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

— Rumi

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

— Rumi

“If someone can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle dirt on his head and declare him dead.”

— Rumi

When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART, there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU.

— Rumi

The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back.

— Rumi

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

— Rumi

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

— Rumi

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

— Rumi

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

— Rumi

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

— Rumi