Quotes About Adaptation

If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace.

The word failure is imperfect. Once we begin to transform it, it ceases to be that any longer. The term is always slipping off the edges of our vision, not simply because it's hard to see without wincing, but because once we are ready to talk about it, we often call the event something else--a learning experience, a trial, a reinvention--no longer the static concept of failure.

Failure is good preparation for success, which comes as a pleasant surprise, but success is poor preparation for failure.

Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the grace of this behavior, this individual has found it possible to continue .

Choose one: chronic disappointment or lowering your expectations to the point where nothing can disappoint you. But consider also that you might miss feeling disappointed.

I was like that once, and I'm not like that anymore.

I don't know myself as well as I used to .

Choose one: chronic disappointment or lowering your expectations to the point where nothing can disappoint you.

I fret about my lost scarf. Then I miss my flight. The scarf is no longer a problem.

Once you've traveled far enough from where you began, it's impossible to reconcile the present with the past.

Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes I succeeded.

The world the gods made is too big for us, so we make ourselves a smaller one.

Funny how life messed with you.

Old incompetence is incompetence still.

There was the way she moved and the way she looked at people and the way she'd turned herself into Nobbie Wainwright on the way Aiaia. She'd been playing a governess when we met her, but that wasn't what she was.

In the January that I turned thirty-five, sleep became a foreign and hostile country. I had never been more than what one might call a refugee in the country of sleep;

Telling Grace not to worry was like asking a fish not to swim

It has always fascinated me that we're prepared to end a romantic relationship that is no longer working but are generally reluctant to do the same with friendships. Not all friendships are meant to last for life. People evolve, and friendships evolve with them.

You feel out of control, but we can't control everything that happens in life. Sometimes we just have to go where the tide takes us and know we'll cope with whatever comes along.

If you can't stand the heat…' 'Get out of the kitchen?' Holly completed the proverb but Nicky gave a saucy wink. 'Remove a layer of clothing.

The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so They who do survive.

I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.

Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.