A Quote by Tacitus

The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.] — © Tacitus
The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]

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Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]
We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.
To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.
The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.
Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances.
Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.
All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the 'exterior is the reflection of the interior.' When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life and the external also change.
It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.
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