Rumi Giving Quotations

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.

Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself.

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

Love, the life-giving garden of this world.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.

You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.

It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Silence gives answers.

I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.

I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself...

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence

Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

It is Love that gives joy to happiness.

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.