Rumi Quotes on Happiness
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a thirteenth-century Persian poet, jurist, and Sufi mystic, born in what is now Afghanistan and settling at Konya in Anatolia. This page collects quotes attributed to Rumi on the topic of happiness, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Then think not lowly of thy heart, though lowly, For holy is it and there dwells the holy, God’s presence-chamber is the human breast, Ah! happy spirit with such Inmate blest.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 176, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Falconer) -
“The generous die but their kindness remains, O happy he who drove this chariot (of kindness), The unjust die and their injustice remains, Alas for the soul that commits deceit and fraud.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 196 -
“Argue not from the condition of common men, Stumble not at severity and mercy; For mercy and severity, joy and sorrow are transient And transient things die; God is heir of all.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 237 (Whinfield) -
“If the sleeping spirit knew itself to be asleep, Whatever it might see, it would feel neither joy nor sorrow.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 244, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson)