Rumi Quotes

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

I'm a work in progress.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

I think I surprise myself.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

I invented myself.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.