Rumi Quotes
19 quotes by 13 authors
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a…
— Henri Nouwen
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For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along,…
— Bill Viola
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My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about,…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not…
— Rumi
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There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only…
— Arianna Huffington
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Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
— Elif Safak
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Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.
— Jerry Stahl
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
— Robert Bly
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[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral...
— Coleman Barks
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Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
— Coleman Barks
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What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is…
— Coleman Barks
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If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s…
— Huston Smith
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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke…
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
— Rumi
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The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the…
— Elif Safak
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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 completely filled with…
— Rumi
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know…
— Quincy Jones
Who Wrote These Rumi Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 19 Rumi Quotes as follows: