Quotes from Rumi

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle

This whole universe is but a drop of His Beauty!

The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.

There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul.

I see my beauty in you.

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

The month of fasting has come, the emperor's banner has arrived, withhold your hand from food, the spirit's table has arrived. The soul has escaped from separation and bound nature's hands; the heart of error is defeated, the army of faith has won.

There is an unseen sweetness in the stomachs emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you...

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Revile those who flatter you.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.