Quotes About Adaptation

Well, he said softly, in this life you're often born one thing and die another. You don't have to accept that what you're given when you come in is all you'll have when you leave.

Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves nevertheless. We salvage one set of principles only to forsake another.

Some decisions cannot be made in advance of the time that will demand them. We cannot always anticipate the way in which things will happen and therefore cannot anticipate what we will do. We must accept that.

We never know what we can be or do until the need is there and we are tested by it.

But Miles had always approached life differently than he, always preferring to blend in with his surroundings rather than to shape them, always preferring to make do. He just didn't understand that there were some things in life a man simply should not accept.

Things change. Life changes. Nothing stays the same.

You did what you should have done. Accept that sometimes the consequences are harsh and unforeseen. Accept that you cannot always allow for every result. There is nothing wrong in this.

Life went on, no matter the magnitude of the events that influenced it.

Use Redline wireless, he had argued. Use Bluetooth Extreme. Use something that wasn't hardwired. It was more dependable, less subject to malfunctions than the more rudimentary system they were using might invite. So

You have to make the best of the life you are given.

We cannot pretend that the world begins and ends at the boundaries we might make for it. Sometimes, we must acknowledge that it extends itself into our lives in ways we might prefer it wouldn't, and we must face up to the challenges it offers.

But chances were few and far between in their world, and mostly you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

Magic works differently for different people, and there is no way of knowing how it will respond. Even those who have used it repeatedly and come to rely on it have found that it can abandon them.

that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.

you don't know what you can or can't do until you are forced to find out.

We're all stuck in this world, and none of us made it the way it is. We don't like much about it, and I think if you want to live in it with some sense of responsibility, you have to find ways to keep it this side of becoming too insane.

You can live your life worrying about what you don't know, or you can accept your limitations and make the best of it.

You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.

But nothing was permanent; all things must change. And no matter the beliefs of some and the wishes of others, life had a way of surprising you.

I think it is something else. I think we were given a starting point, but nothing more. The future remains undecided. Things may change as events unfold, and we must be ready to change with them.

No one likes letting go of what they have always believed, even when they know it's right to do so.

He still doesn't know how life can turn you around and twist you about and do with you what it will.

Sometimes you have to settle for doing what you can as opposed to what you think you should.

Life does not give you a pass from upheavals even in the best of times. Life gives you living—which is messy and uncertain, constantly shifting your place in the world and your expectations