Quotes About Adaptation

Filomena's heart starts to sink. Another feeling she's grown used to. -- Never After, The Thirteenth Fairy

If she wasn't Mal from the Isle anymore, who was she?

He was the one who'd made her this way. He'd turned her into this person sitting next to him, a beast with venom in her veins. She was forced to sharpen her edges into needle points because of him.

It's insane to think how fast the unthinkable becomes the normal.

Y]ou can't control everything. Anything, really. Like the food we've been making. We can follow the recipe exactly as your grandmother wrote it, do everything exactly--or almost exactly--as she had, and the dish can come out so-so instead of amazing. Or it can come out amazing when you were expecting very little.

If you did not have that person or problem in your life, what would you be doing with your life that is different from what you are doing now? How would you be feeling and behaving? Spend a few minutes visualizing yourself living your life, feeling and behaving that way—in spite of your unsolved problem.

Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit.

Even recovery brings losses, more changes we must struggle to accept.

You need to detach most when it seems the least likely or possible thing to do. I

We need to find a balance between solving problems and learning to live with unsolved problems.

Today, I will exchange a controlled life for one that is manageable.

You need to detach most when it seems the least likely or possible thing to do.

we need to realize these are only expectations; they belong to us, and we're not always boss.

I learned how to make something out of almost nothing, instead of nothing out of something.

reactionaries.

You have learned that you will never learn everything there is to know," he replied. "And you have learned how to stop the pain.

Sometimes we outgrow a group or sponsor. It's okay to do that without guilt as long as we're not in denial. As we grow, our recovery needs will change. Be flexible and open, and Life will show you what to do.

Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that our reactions have become habitual.

Sometimes things happen, and for a variety of reasons I may not end up where I wanted to go. If I change my mind or problems beyond my control interfere, I find myself doing something other than what I had planned. Timing and exact circumstances may vary. That's okay. I usually end up someplace that's better for me. That's where acceptance, trust, faith, and letting go come in. But at least I'm not driving aimlessly through life.

The best way to get past something was usually to simply do something else, right?

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it. - Gallen