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
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