Q:Wat's a Motto? A:Nothin! Wat's a motto with you?

So I was diddling around on the interwebs today and found the Blakney family motto:
Auxilium Meum Ab Alto.
That's Latin for:
My help comes from above.

Well, that got me thinking about mottos, and what my personal one might be. After a whole lot of fooling around with grammar and wording on a couple of English to Latin and Latin to English translators and some tweaking that was cross referenced with a Latin dictionary, I came up with this--
Novo vos, ego novo mihi primoris.
It means:
To change you, I must change myself first.
(Its literal translation is, "to make anew you, I to make anew me first".)
I think that one of humanity's biggest problems is thinking that we can change each other without knowing how to begin changing ourselves.
To make a change, we have to start with ourselves.
I think the best way to explain what I mean is to quote Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror:
"I'm starting with the man in the mirror/
I'm asking him to change his ways/
And no message could've been any clearer/
If you wanna make the world a better place/
Take a look at yourself and make that change!"

Change must first come from the heart.
Here are some more quotes about change that I love.
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me." ~Author Unknown

"If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
~Mary Engelbreit

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
~W. Edwards Deming

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
~Victor Frankl

We, The People...

We, The People...

by Heather Rosebud Blakney

Maggie Gallagher, Board Chair of NOM, I have this to say-- Your statements, first of all, are absolutely appalling and morally incorrect! Secondly, they go against the Declaration of Independence! "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." We, the LGBTQ people (for we are, contrary to YOUR beliefs, in fact, PEOPLE) of the United States of America, hold THIS truth to be self evident-- that you are obstructing our rights by giving your speeches against us and our INALIENABLE RIGHTS TO LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. I wish you the best of luck on your road to hell.