"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world...." - Rumi

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Rumi traces the maturation from external ambition to inner transformation.

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— Baltasar Gracián

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”

— Menander

“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”

— Hippocrates

“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”

— Unknown

“One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

— Lao Tzu

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us.”

— Marcel Proust