"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

— Rumi

"Do not feel lonely the entire universe is inside you"

— Rumi

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

— Rumi

"This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief."

— Rumi

"Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?"

— Rumi

"The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire."

— Rumi

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

— Rumi

"Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees."

— Rumi

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."

— Rumi

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop"

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

"Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden."

— Rumi

"Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things."

— Rumi

"If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road."

— Rumi

"When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep."

— Rumi

"Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love."

— Rumi

"Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite love."

— Rumi

"Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?"

— Rumi