“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”
“When you alter yourself, the alterations become the truth...”
“Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered”
“It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.”
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
“They could not alter your feelings: for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare the utmost detail of everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.”