Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.