Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one who becomes a servant of lovers
is really a fortunate sovereign.
Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love.
Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.


Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
نحن من أولئك الذين يفرحون دون ذهب أو ثروات
نحن هادئو...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
إن كان حزني من أجلك يميتني كل لحظة، لا تميتني أنت.
ات�...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
İstediğin bir şey olmuyorsa ya daha iyisi olacağı için ya da gerçekten de olmaması gerektiğ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warm...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hu...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no wal...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hope...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had th...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the co...
RUMI
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
RUMI
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
RUMI
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
RUMI
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
RUMI
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
RUMI
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to ...
RUMI
You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you...
RUMI
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grow...
RUMI
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning...
RUMI
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot i...
RUMI
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come...
RUMI
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the l...
RUMI
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, a...
RUMI
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
RUMI
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastri...
RUMI
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
RUMI
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badl...
RUMI
Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
RUMI
The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and ...
RUMI
I spent millons of years in the world
of inorganic things
as a star, as a rock...
Then I di...
RUMI
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
RUMI
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your ple...
RUMI
The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those ...
RUMI
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
RUMI
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much h...
RUMI
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself....
RUMI
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
RUMI
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence ...
RUMI
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every ...
RUMI
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
RUMI
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...
RUMI
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my ...
RUMI
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy...
RUMI
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. L...
RUMI
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
RUMI
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
RUMI
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through...
RUMI
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
RUMI
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...
RUMI
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
RUMI
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
RUMI
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
RUMI