Quotes About Adaptation

He who loses his head, loses,

Trains aren't a problem." "You turn into mist?" "No, I step out of the way.

A cool thing is that stuff can always get worse and it usually does

each moment of being herself, she knew, was a strengthening, an adapting, of who she was; and she didn't want to be who she was—that she would squeak a little.

The key lies in staying with the experience through all its changes.

We can change habits at any of four levels: our thoughts, our emotions, our behavior, and our relationships.

There goes that schema again!"—we can take steps to change what happens next.

Change is ceaseless.

schema responses are overreactions, not appropriate responses to difficult situations.

A schema represents an outmoded holdover from earlier learning. In other words, remind yourself, "I'm having this reaction because of what I learned to do back then, not because of what's actually happening right now.

When we pause, we don't know what will happen next. But by disrupting our habitual behaviors, we open to the possibility of new and creative ways of responding to our wants and fears.

Nothing is ever final" is a lesson in humility; "no final judgment should be passed" is a promise of hope. The

Change did not always lead to improvements, sometimes only to change.

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.

Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.' 'Why do you say that?' 'She seems different, that's all.' 'I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusing different with dissatisfied.

your best quality is also your worst. For herself, she identified her ability to adapt. "I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back,

I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back," she said. "But I rolled my way into a life I love.

Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have, but you are not going to get any kind of spark.

My skin stayed the same while this difference snuck in through a pore and attached itself to whatever brittle part forms my center.

Life is full of things you never figured on.

Water always finds its own level.

After a year, I was ready to get this show on the road, creating a new generation with an updated set of rules and regulations

When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person. It's like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It's the same thing, but it's not the same at all.

Sooner or later they will leave our country, just as many people throughout history left many countries. The railways, ships, hospitals, factories and schools will be ours and we'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were — ordinary people — and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making.