Quotes About Adaptation

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

The naturally lonely person does not look for comfort in love, but accepts the variables as due course.

Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

Modesty is a learned adaptation. It's stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that modesty will fall off faster than a G-string will fall off a stripper.

A horse needs a tail more than one season.

change everything you don't like about your life. But when you come to a thing you can't change, then change the way you think about it. You'll see it new, and maybe a new way to change it.

Death of a beloved flattens and dulls everything. Mountains and skyscrapers and grand ideas are brought down to eye level or below. Great loves and large hates no longer cast such huge shadows or span so broad a distance. Connections do not adhere so closely, and important events lose some of their glow.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.

When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned from your Grandmother Henderson in Arkansas and what you have learned from me, you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't let anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will always have to make adaptations, in love relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind. And then remember this: You can always come home.

Now they seemed not ready to give up the old school, the familiar paths and classrooms.

At last life was getting itself in joint.

Sister, change everything you don't like about your life. But when you come to a thing you can't change, then change the way you think about it. You'll see it new, and maybe a new way to change it.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

If you keep gathering those reins, lass, you and the horse are going to end up back where you came from.

If it ain't broke, then don't fix it

She's told me on multiple occasions that I don't have to always stay the person I was, that I can change and be whoever I want to be.

She absorbed too much of the world around her and it affected her. That wasn't something she could change, could she?

Play act with a baby doll. Carry around a swaddled doll so that your dog gets used to routine baby activities. Take the doll in a stroller on a walk with the dog.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?