Quotes from Rumi

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

I can heal a broken heart with a smile.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

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

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

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

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.