Quotes About Adaptation

They know enough who know how to learn.

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

The seasons and all their changes are in me.

Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves...The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men and so with the paths which the mind travels.

If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes.

At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I

Things do not change; people change.

Nature abhors repetition

Se uma planta não pode viver de acordo com sua natureza, ela morre. O mesmo ocorre com um homem.

So here we are moving toward the exit of the twentieth century with a religious community largely adjusted to the status quo, standing as a tail light behind other community agencies rather than a headlight leading men to higher levels of justice.

Si una planta no puede vivir de acuerdo con su naturaleza muere, y lo mismo le ocurre al hombre.

Não se incomode muito em ter coisas novas, sejam roupas ou amizades [...]. As coisas não mudam; mudamos nós