Rumi quotes on love

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was a Sufi poet who lived between 1207 and 1273AD. He wrote about life, spirituality and love, providing numerous inspiring and thought-provoking quotations. His poems use analogies to beautifully express concepts that are hard to put into words. Eight centuries after he lived, he’s still one of the most popular poets in America.

Below are some of the more famous of Rumi’s quotes on love, but to explore and enjoy his work further, I’d suggest getting either

 

Rumi love quotes

You are a lover of your own experience… not of me… you turn to me to feel your own emotion.

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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We are born of love; Love is our mother.

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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

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Rumi the book of love contains poems and love quotationsYou have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

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The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet they testify to invisible love.

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However much I might try to expound or explain love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet. Through Love all that is copper will be gold. Through Love all dregs will become wine. Through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

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I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.’

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Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.

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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

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Rumi poems on love

Rumi love quotes in hardcover, paperback or Kindle formatI was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.
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Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
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Other Rumi quotes on relationships

The essential Rumi for the best poems on love, life and spiritualityYour depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

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Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

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Rumi quotes on using love to give life direction

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

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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

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If you’re looking for more Rumi quotes on love, you can find “Rumi: The book of love” on Amazon in hardcover or paperback, or on Kindle.

 

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