Rumi Quotes About Dignity

• I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

  Rumi

  Reading, Dawn, Want

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Ode 1823”

• There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.

  Rumi

  Horse, Children, Night

• Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.

  Rumi

  Heart, People, Worry

• There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

  Rumi

  Dignity, Said

  Daniel Ladinsky, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2012). “The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi”, p.54, Penguin

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