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

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"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

Love

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

Self-awareness

"This love is the rose that blooms forever."

- Rumi

Love

"For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."

- Rumi

Resilience

"A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn."

- Rumi

Resilience

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"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

Change

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

Change

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Change

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

Change

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

Change