25 Timeless Rumi Quotes about Love to Open Your Heart
Rumi is one of the most inspirational and widely-read mystical poets. He was a passionate seeker of the truth and placed great faith in living from the heart. Read these Rumi quotes about love to drop deeper into your heart. So you can feel free.
If you're not familiar, the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi remains one of the world’s brightest creative talents.
His message: love-based doctrine prevails over fear-based orders of the world. Love is the only antidote to fear.
As you're reading these quotes, open your heart. Root deeper into that sacred space. Shine a light on what hurts. Loosen the grip of fear, shame, and betrayal. These Rumi quotes about love will help.
25 Heartfelt and Insightful Rumi Quotes about Love
1. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi
2. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?” ― Rumi
3. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” ― Rumi
4. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” ― Rumi
5. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ― Rumi
6. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi
7. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” ― Rumi
8. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” – Rumi
9. “Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.” ― Rumi
10. “I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.” ― Rumi
11. “Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.” ― Rumi
12. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi quotes
13. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” ― Rumi
14. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi
15. “You have within you more love than you could ever understand.” – Rumi
16. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” ― Rumi
17. “Be certain in the religion of Love there are no believers or unbelievers. Love embraces all.” – Rumi
18. “You are the soul of the soul of the Universe, and your name is Love.” ― Rumi
19. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” – Rumi
20. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” ― Rumi quotes
21. “A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.” – Rumi
22. “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ― Rumi
23. “This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.” – Rumi
24. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” ― Rumi quotes
25. “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?” ― Rumi quotes
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Tell me:
Which of these Rumi quotes about love is your favorite?
Tell me in the comments. I read every single one, and I’d love to know!
With love,
Jen
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Comments on this post (29)
My favorite is: #18. “You are the soul of the soul of the Universe, and your name is Love.” What a beautiful way to see the world. Thanks for posting these quotes.
— Linda
#22,23
— RYNO
Very Good, Thankyou so much for sharing such a beautiful collection of Rumi Quotes on Love.
— John
16. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” ― Rumi
— Michael
My favorite is :
Whispers of LoveLover whispers to my ear,
“Better to be a prey than a hunter.
Make yourself My fool.
Stop trying to be the sun and become a speck!
Dwell at My door and be homeless.
Don’t pretend to be a candle, be a moth,
so you may taste the savor of Life
and know the power hidden in serving.”
— Jayaram
1st favorite : “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” ― Rumi quotes
2nd favorite : “This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.” – Rumi
3rd favorite : You are the soul of the soul of the Universe, and your name is Love.” ― Rumi
Thanks for sharing this compilation.
— divya sethi
25. “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?” ― Rumi
Perfect after today’s Breathwork class with Sonya at Bethel Farm Yoga, Hillsboro, NH. Sonya asked us to open the “Golden door behind our heart” and in doing so the walls of resistance disintegrated!
Namaste 🙏🏼 ♥️🙂
— Sattva
The are all great, but my favorite is 13.
Thanks for the compilation.
— Christian Schlegel
Thank you for sharing these quotes. May you rejoice always in Love. Peace
— David
I love reading Rumi poetry before bed. This collection was a treasure which has left my heart full. They all move in a unique way.
The one that touches my soul over and over again is , “ only from the heart can you touch the sky”
So pure and true.
Some days I can only see the sky:))
— Carla
Excellent selection of quotes.
— jr
I loved them all. I specially loved no 5. This addresses the essence of the universe. It says " In your light i learn how to love, in your beauty, how to make poems, You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
I am an artist and the above explains how I paint.
— Shweta Parikh
4. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” ― Rumi
— Mandy
22. “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ― Rumi
I love this quote because it reminds me that we are vessels of love, yet we often don’t recognize that, that is who we really are already, underneath all of the pain and fear that we allow to color our lives and choices.
Yet at any moment, we can reveal that open innocence that we were born with, allowing it to surface and heal you. And choose to see that in each other, no matter how they see themselves. Its a risk only if you see yourself as finite and small, rather than eternal and one with everyone and everything.
— KF
Nos 4 11 and 12 are so beautiful. Thank you for these wonderful words of love .. with love
— Lola
😘😘 I liked #2, 12, 13, &17 very good
— Chere
I like number 20 & 24, try meditating on that.
— Tarry Freeman
I LOVE THEM ALL!!!!!! However, the one’s I keep looking back on is: 4, `13, and 20. These are very deep
— Cee
You have to keep breaking heart until it opens
That’s the truth of it right there
Knowing that it is so helps us to bear life and undertake the transmutation of pain into love
— Geoff
I like all the quotes…..Rumi is my spiritual master….every week he come in my dream to praise me…blessed i am…..❤️❤️❤️
— Arif Rumi
Dearest Jen,
My absolute favorite poem is.
“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”
In love Tom
— Tom
Maria, what a beautiful comment. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience with this group of quotes. Rumi always speaks so clearly to me. “Humility is the gateway to being close to the world.” I love this. Thank you.
— Jennifer Williamson
I particularly like number 16. Or this one I picked right now, it could be another one in 5 minutes. They are all sublime. You can enter them like a path and see where it takes you. Or you can hold it very close to you, like a ring or a necklace. Something that you look at many times, and its different every time. I am a Buddhist and in Buddhism you have the Brahma Viharas to which I always like to add humility for myself. It is something that in our success driven culture does not get much attention. Humility is the gateway to being close to the world.
— Maria Zettl
SaraBeth, I’m sorry, but this was the only version I could find from my research!
— Jennifer Williamson
Do you know the name of the full poem for #7 – “Wherever you go, whatever you do, be in love?” All I can find is this one quote and I’d like to read the entire poem. Thank you!
— SaraBeth Dukes