New year, new life!" - The saying goes.

It will be?!

Often we place expectations at a time as a starting point for the desired change. But we hope things change, and that's just it. We do not even consider a minimum of steps to start the path of change, which, yes, can be considered a starting point.

There is a motive force more powerful than steam, electricity, and atomic energy: the will. - Albert Einstein said.

Well, in this case: New Year, you new! Make the change happen. Do not focus only on where you want to go, but how you will arrive. If the path is long, as it always is, enjoy the landscape, make friends, sing, have fun! You may find that the great change was always in you and not in the rest of the world.


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God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles, I dou...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1)
Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Authority is never without hate.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser star...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings, The symphony of spring.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1)
For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof Of deeds, not words.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and div...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do th...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Through thick and thin.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation? Have equal powe...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: ...
JOHN BROWN (1)
Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
'Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Look before you ere you leap.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in an...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which wa...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit; 'Twas Presbyterian true blue; ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis alw...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes; And they'll opine the...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches a...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.
JOHN BROWN (1)
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.
THOMAS COGAN (1)
He that is down can fall no lower.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, Th...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang Shoots through...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
As you sow y' are like to reap.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds, And ceaseless...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyles...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prel...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Scroundrel maxim.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway, For his breeches he next day ...
JAMES THOMSON 1
A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.
JAMES THOMSON 1
Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON 1
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for ...
JAMES THOMSON (1)