This is why, instead of always seeking to change our conditions, we must work on ourselves

Even though they benefit from the same soil, temperature, humidity and care, some trees produce flowers with brilliant colours, exquisite fragrance, and delicious fruits, whereas others produce drab, odourless flowers and inedible fruits. Well, the same can be said for human beings. This is why, although they believe that their destiny – their elevation or their fall, their success or failure – are determined by chance events in society or in their families, they are only superficially correct. In reality everything depends on the nature of the seed or the kernel each one of us represents, on the way we think and feel, on the way we experience events and learn from them. This is why, instead of always seeking to change our conditions, we must work on ourselves.