
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi
Bengali poet and polymath from India; the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913), known for Gitanjali.
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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

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