Rumi Shams Quotes

#1. I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

P.T. Barnum

#2. The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

Woodrow Wilson

#4. You will learn by reading,
But you will understand with LOVE.

Rumi

#5. It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

Felix Morley

#6. I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment.

Rumi

#7. You are my shams.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#8. We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides.

Jamila Hammad

#9. Shams was the wind that would blow the scholar's turban off from Rumi's head, and turn a quiet academic into an enthusiastic lover of God.

Cihan Okuyucu

#10. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor.

Jamila Hammad

#11. Shams is a trumpet note of light
that starts the atoms spinning,
a wind that comes at dawn
tasting of bread and salt.
Move to the edge and over. Fly with the wings
he gives, and if you get tired, lie down,
but keep opening inside your soul.

Rumi

#12. Like the rabid fans of sports, the same goes for fans and their actors, TV shows and movies. You love what you love, and it bonds you with others who love the same thing.

Kristoffer Polaha

#13. But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere ...

Elif Shafak

#14. Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

Nicholas Kristof

#15. You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.

Wayne W. Dyer

#16. Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#17. To believe, man needs no full reasoning.
Without reasoning, it turns into myophia.

Toba Beta

#18. The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.
(Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz)

Idries Shah

#19. Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise.

Jamila Hammad