Quotes About Adaptation

We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admit that the insomnia emergency is now a permanent condition.

You can always put balsamic vinaigrette on salted meat and sort of pretend it's a salad.

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

with a little penguin huddle of moles just above her hip, looking lost on that Arctic shelf.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on.

Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.

Look for the exceptions to the rule--and let these rule your spirit.

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen

When your world gets turned upside down view it from a new perspective

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

That no matter how good or bad things were, they were never permanent.

My childhood had been vanishing bit by bit while I'd been living in New York, trying to pretend it had never existed. Maybe that was what the old saying – that a person can never really go home again – was all about. You couldn't go home because even though home might still be there in brick and mortar, everything else would be unrecognizable.

Actually, they're really just ordinary plants. But they've learned to survive unordinary events, which makes them like the strongest plants in the world. That's pretty cool.

But time changed all things, oxidizing friendships like old copper pots, so they no longer saw their reflection in each other's faces.

Things always change, Eva. You cannot control change. You can only be prepared for it.

Min tunga hade alltid varit ett smidigt och pålitligt verktyg, men nu vägrade den att göra tjänst mer. Alldeles som jag nyss hade hade lyssnat för första gången i mitt liv, visste jag, att om jag nu vill tala, måste det vara på ett nytt sätt, som jag ännu inte var mogen för. De lager av mig själv, som nu skulle komma till tals, hade väl aldrig förr format några ord (s. 138).

But as we ascend to animals of high types, having faculties more efficient and more numerous, we begin to find that time and strength are not wholly absorbed in providing for immediate needs.

Nachdem er sich in der anarchistischen Partei unmöglich gemacht hatte, blieb ihm nichts mehr übrig, als ein nützliches Mitglied der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft zu werden und in die Sozialdemokratie einzutreten.

I love to watch times change!

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.