Painterly green sapling growing through the centre of a weathered tree stump.

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Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The first instruction directs effort toward changing an unwanted situation. The second offers another place to act when that is impossible: one’s own response. The distinction preserves a measure of agency without pretending that every circumstance is controllable, asking where a useful change can actually be made.

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