Quotes About Adaptation

when you enter another's reality, you observe her rules. Then

As the saying goes, "If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got." If we're finding it hard to fulfill our needs, there's something within us (most likely a thought process or belief governed by fear) that needs to change so that we can create a different reality.

There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

He ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

Many love stories are like the shells of hermit crabs, though others are more like chambered nautiluses, whose architecture grows with the inhabitant and whose abandoned smaller chambers are lighter than water and let them float in the sea.

graduated as I turned twenty, and then realized that the world and I were not ready for each other.

Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension.

We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day.

Nothing is ever so good that it can't stand a little revision, and nothing is ever so impossible and broken down that a try at fixing it is out of the question.

There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.

The status quo would like you to believe it is immutable, inevitable, and invulnerable, and lack of memory of a dynamically changing world reinforces this view.

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes

The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren't adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.

The first was the rapidity of the improvisation of order out of chaos." He described how people took initiative, without leadership or coordination

Like a life, a journey assumes a shape and a meaning that are only clear afterward, and like a journey, a life requires that you learn to let go of the plan when the actuality departs from it, to embrace what's arriving, let go of what's departing, to move forward and not get stuck. You can cover the same ground with entirely different purposes.

cause London is drowning and I— I live by the river.

Perder cosas tiene que ver con la desaparición de lo conocido, perderse tiene que ver con la aparición de lo desconocido.

That taught me a lesson I've always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.

She had treated her life as a room that had to be completely refurnished.

Time flies, but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too.

Du musst keine schwierigen Wege mehr suchen, sagte ich mir, um an deine Grenzen zu kommen. Auch wenn du keine senkrechten Felswände mehr hochgehen kannst, geh deinen Weg weiter. Die Welt also war nicht mehr dieselbe. Hatte ich aber meine Erfolge nicht auch der Kunst der Anpassung zu verdanken gehabt? Immer im Leben, wenn es kein Weiter zu geben schien, war die Wende gekommen. Oft unverhofft.

Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as much as possible, any hint of radicalism or violence, revolution or zealotry, from the story of Jesus, and to adapt Jesus's words and actions to the new political situation in which they found themselves.