"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." The Analects of Confucius

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation -- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength. Genealogy of Morals

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. The Old Curiosity Shop