Quotes About Adaptation

Facts are what facts are. Either you can live with them or you can't.

Trout made into fish cakes is still trout.

He was discomfited to see how easily men (and women as well) stepped from the train to station platform, from platform to train – with ease, with levity, laughing and talking and greeting each other as though oblivious to the abrupt geographical shifts they were making, and disrespectful of the distance and differences they entered. Many were hatless, their clothes brightly colored. The cases they carried appeared, from the way they handled them, to be feather-light.

From surfeit to loss is a short line.

She had spent the summer forgetting to be English--and Tannhahorens had spent the summer forgetting the same thing.

Janie and Jodie looked at him as if he were an out-of-date computer chip.

She had read a million times that you could not make your boyfriend into something else, so fine—Kathleen would make herself into something else.

We try on many masks throughout our lives. Eventually we find one that fits so well we never take it off.

Some people call camel "ship of the desert". I have named our camel Selene, because she is pale like the moon. She is very good. You will become used to her soon.

Having to say, "If this is what I must accept, so be it," can feel like chewing glass, but not being able to accept what you cannot change is like having to swallow those shards of glass.

Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

The goal of becoming a conscious person is not to outwit death, nor even to become immune to disease. The goal is to be able to handle any and all changes in our lives—and in our bodies—without fear, looking only to absorb the message of truth contained in the change.

and if it rains this week, you might ought to practice running between the raindrops." "Why would I do that?" Nick asked. "So that you can be really good at dodging bullets. Bye now." Harry ended the call.

Honey, experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And every experience in life gets us ready for what's comin' at us in the future. So don't count it as wasted. Count it as a lesson learned and, next time around, learn from it and maybe you'll get what you wanted all along.

He cocked his head to one side. Callie, this is a ranch. If I remember right, you joined the Army because you hated every damn thing there was about ranchin'. Are you sure you want to live here? Guess I've found out there's worse things in the world than the cows, hay haulin', and calvin' season, she said. I'm not askin' for a handout here, Finn. I'm willing to work. I'll work outside. I'll work inside cleaning and cooking or both if you'll give me and Martin room and board.

When life gives you lemons, make chocolate chip cookies and make the whole world wonder what you've been up to.

than this landline.

You can get glad in the same britches you got mad in.

Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.

sometimes a leopard can change its spots if the right woman comes along.

Shake it off and look forward. Leave the past in a fog where even memories don't exist.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Miss Janie used to say, 'It is what it is.'" Kayla had moved to the other side of the room with her can of paint and small brush. "I never understood what she was talking about until lately. Life is what it is. We either repeat what we know, or we learn from it and go forward in a better direction.