Quotes About Adaptation

We each survive our own way.

folks who hang on to the past miss their chance for a future.

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Well, I won't get help standing here wishing life were different.

Where are you from?" he asked. Leni never knew how to answer that question. It implied a permanence, a before that had never existed for her. She'd never thought of any place as home.

The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you

Yo procedo de una generación más reservada. Comprendemos el valor de olvidar, el aliciente de reinventarnos.

The man who'd come home from war was not the same man who'd boarded the plane for Vietnam.

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.

Nessuno ha la vita che si aspettava, ma è il modo in cui ci si adatta alle difficoltà a determinare se si è felici o no.

You do not have to love everything about a place to carry it in your heart.

must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

It's not the life I planned, but somehow, it's the life I was intended to have. And now, finally, I'm ready to embrace it.

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all. You know?

We didn't need a new house after all. When something isn't working, you don't always need to tear down the whole structure. Sometimes you just pull down a wall, reinvent, put some new skin on the old bones. And it's lovely.

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

When something goes 'wrong,' it is not the outer event that ought to be changed, but our inner state which responds to it. If we can build inner balance, we will no longer be blown over by the slightest gust, whether 'good' or 'bad'.

I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.

I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

Wie wird das eigentlich mit der Sprache?" fragte die Prinzessin, als wir im Zug nach Helsingör saßen. "Du warst doch schon mal da. Sprichst du denn nun gut schwedisch?" »Ich mache das so«, sagte ich. »Erst spreche ich deutsch, und wenn sie das nicht verstehn, englisch, und wenn sie das nicht verstehn, platt - und wenn das nichts hilft, dann hänge ich an die deutschen Wörter die Endung as an, und dieses Sprech-as verstehas sie ganz gut.«