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Famous Rumi Quotes
“If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
“You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!”
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
“Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.”