If you want to feel more wonder and less worry, read these Rumi quotes about life. No matter what you're going through right now, there's something here for you. There's some light here, and hope for what you can make out of this life.

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43 Enlightening Rumi Quotes about Life

1. “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” ― Rumi

2. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

3. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” ― Rumi

5. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”― Rumi

5. “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.” ― Rumi

6. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi

7. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ― Rumi

8. “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.” ― Rumi

9. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ― Rumi

10. “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” ― Rumi

11. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” ― Rumi

12. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ― Rumi

13. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumi

14. “What you seek is seeking you.” ― Rumi

15. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” ― Rumi

16. “I am not this hair, I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.” – Rumi

17. “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.” ― Rumi quotes

18. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” ― Rumi

19. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” ― Rumi

20. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” ― Rumi

21. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” ― Rumi

22. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi

23. “When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.” ― Rumi

24. “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.” ― Rumi

25. “The cure for pain is in the pain.” ― Rumi quotes

26. “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

27. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” ― Rumi

28. “Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.” – Rumi

29. “Beauty surrounds us.” ― Rumi

30. “Those who don’t want to change, let them sleep.” – Rumi

31. “Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.” ― Rumi quotes

32. “This is a subtle truth: whatever you love, you are.” – Rumi

33. “It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.” ― Rumi

34. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.” – Rumi

35. “When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.” – Rumi

36. “Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.” ― Rumi

37. “Open your hands if you want to be held.” – Rumi

38. “You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!” ― Rumi

39. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” ― Rumi

40. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” ― Rumi

41. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.” ― Rumi

42. “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.” ― Rumi

43. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi

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Tell me:

Which of these quotes is your favorite?

Tell me in the comments. I read every single one, and I'd love to know!

With love,

Jen

P.S. Want to spend your time on earth in awe and wonder? Go visit my shop for prints of handwritten poems and other words of hope and heart. If you forget what matters or how much of a gift it is to be here at all, you’ll have something to remind you.

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