Quotes About Adaptation

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Distance can ruin even the best of intentions. But I suppose it depends on how you look at it. Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get. People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.

If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

Ronnie: I guess I'm okay with that.But it's not going to be easy for you. They don't have a lot of fishing or mudding around here. Will: I figured. Ronnie And not a lot of beach volleyball,either. Especially in January. Will I guess I'll have to make some sacrifices. Ronnie.Maybe if you're lucky, we can find you some other ways to occupy Your time.

It's not such a bad thing. Change isn't always for the best.

I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.

She accepted things because there was nothing else to compare them too.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?