Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Rumi Quotes
Divine GuidanceEnvyFocusInner PeaceSpirituality Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
BeautyDivinityLoveSpiritualityTransformation That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
CompassionFreedomPeaceSpiritualityUnity Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
FreedomLoveMysterySacrificeTranscendence 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.
Inner barriersLovePersonal GrowthSelf-Discovery 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.
EmotionEternalityGrowthLoveNature 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.
EscapeFreedomImaginationInner StrengthProtection Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
EmotionLoveMysterySelf-awarenessUnderstanding However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
AfterlifeHopeImaginationSpiritualityTransformation When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
AestheticsAppreciationBeautyPerceptionSubjectivity Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
ChoiceDesireDualityPowerSpirituality And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
CommunicationExpressionMysteryPerceptionSelf-Discovery Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
ExistenceKnowledgeMoralityResponsibilitySelf-awareness This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.
ChangeHomeJourneyReflectionSelf-Discovery It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
CommunicationInner WisdomReflectionSelf-ControlSilence Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
InfinityLoveMysticismSpiritualityUnity The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
EnlightenmentInner PeacePerseveranceSpirituality Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
AcceptanceHomecomingHumilityJourneyReverence There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
FreedomInner SelfLoveSpirituality 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.'
Emotional ExpressionHumilityMental HealthPersonal GrowthSelf-awareness Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
DespairHeartbreakLossLoveSorrow You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
BoundlessnessInner PeaceSelf-DiscoverySpiritualityUnity I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
ConflictDesireGrowthInner PowerStrength There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
HappinessHonestyInner PeacePeaceTruth That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
JoySacrednessSpiritualityTransformation Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.