Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
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Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
[Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco;
Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change read more

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Things do not change, we do.

Things do not change, we do.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum
varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]