What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of read more

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

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.]

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't read more

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be read more

To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue
always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful;
and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.