What does this quote by Rumi mean?

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

Maturity shifts our focus from fixing the world to improving ourselves — the one thing that is genuinely within our power.

Thirteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose verses on love and longing are read worldwide.

This line is among the quotes by Rumi that readers return to on calm — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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