Quotes About Adaptation

Everyone has a story, it is what defines us. Our story continues to alter as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing in manipulating the world around us.

Use the meal mats as toilet paper.

We like to imagine our identities are fixed, while in reality so many adjust like chameleons to fit the circumstances around them. We tend to develop based on how we are nurtured and go where we are directed. -Humbuggle

Please do not obsess over choices you cannot change. Mistakes happen. Learn from the past, but concentrate on the present and the future.

When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Control yourself, she told herself forcibly. Become someone who can deal with this. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

You hate change. I hate it too. But things can't stay the same- and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead

In the land where everyone screams, everyone is also slightly deaf.

Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

If there was a universal law regarding mankind, it was that they'd find a way to ferment anything, given time.

The world ends tomorrow, but the day after that, people are going to ask what's for breakfast.

It was simply the way of human beings, subtly changing the past in their minds to match their current beliefs.

Wayne held back a smile, tucking it into his pocket for later use.

History is like that, always gobbling up the present.

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you'll have to learn to deal with failure.

Once the soul grows accustomed to the wound, it's much harder to fix.

The original plan for this novella was for it to be 18,000 words. It ended up at around 40,000. Ah well. That just happens sometimes. (Particularly when you are me.)

Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.

You had to adapt. Move. Change. That was good, but it could also threaten identity, connection, and sense of purpose.

We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.

He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.

Sometimes you need to accept what you've lost, then move forward. Then you can instead realize what you've gained.