Quotes About Adaptation

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

We stayed like that while bees swirled around our heads with a sound like sizzling bacon, a sound that no longer registered as danger. Danger, I realized, was a thing you got used to.

Danger, I realized, was a thing you got used to.

Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different

Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?" The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. He also referred to me as Miss Brown-Nose-in-a-Book and occasionally as Miss Emily-Big-Head-Diction. He meant Dickinson, but again, there are things you let go by.

She'll outlive the last cockroach

The most wounded thing in us always finds a way

A More Resourceful Reprimand.

The life you're living can be torn apart like Osiris's and a new one pieced together. Some of you might die and a new self will rise up to take it's place.

Think of it, she'd said. Some part of you might die and a new self will rise up to take its place.

We must let life be life.

Some part of you might die and a new self will rise up to take its place.

After my first winter in the North, I had an entirely new appreciation for heat.

I wrenched open the windows. I stood while the cold air poured around my face like dark water, as if I was a rock and it was chiselling me into a new shape.

The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn't money; it's a story. Of the arduous journey here, the snow on the streets, the rude immigration agent or the kindly social worker; the lights of the Eiffel Tower or the cold reception from the cousins with whom he's staying.

tradition is not well suited for globalization.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.