Quotes from Rumi

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

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

Look for the answer inside your question.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

The soul is here for its own joy.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You, Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow From Within Your Own Being.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

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

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.