“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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Rumi
Persian Poet
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about”
Rumi
Persian Poet
Friendship
“I am often the brunt of my own humor.”
Rumi
Persian Poet
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