Quotes About Adaptation

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

If you can't fight, and you can't flee, flow.

Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

She had believed the land was her enemy, and she struggled against it, but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it, to belong to it, to fit into its seasons and its ways.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Make a virtue of necessity.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away, but he who bends before it abides.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.