
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 18 : Fog and Ice
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 18 : Fog and Ice
“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”
“Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?”
2017 Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4fjSrVCDvA
Maps of Meaning
“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Free Will
Variant: You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
Variant: Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
“You do not notice changes in what is always before you.”
Mes Apprentissages (1936)