Quotes About Adaptation

No, the really tough bit is when you find yourself dropped on the other side, and you have to find a way for your life to go forward from there.

People get by in all kinds of situations. All over the world people are getting by on almost nothing. Losing things they think they can't live without. Or at least that they think they can't be happy without. But then it's pretty hard to be happy . . . you know . . . if it's dependent on some material possession not going away. I don't

Ruth said, "Ham told me once that the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

used to think everybody got over everything. We always say we never will. But then we do. Because, really, what choice do we have?

I'm not saying this to be mean, Estelle, but this is not your day. I'm sorry. You have to let go and let things change.

the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

It was time for me to practice relaxing about the things I couldn't control.

Thought about how afraid everyone is of change, and how sure they feel that their adaptation to change cannot, will not, happen. Then something new comes along, and a couple of weeks later it feels as though life has been exactly that way since the beginning of recorded time.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do." "See?

You're trying to change things that're not within your control to change. And whenever you try to do something that's impossible to do, you're going to find yourself a little on the tired side. Make sense?

Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks? I could never figure that out.

Things change so fast. Life turns on a dime.

Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks?

Just when we think we have mastered what is expected of us, relationships change, new persons join us on the journey, or circumstances call for untried roles.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

After love, no one is what they were before.

No one is now what they were before the war. There's just no getting any of it back.

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn't behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

That's what happens to the old guard, my pup. You can always count on it. We who serve, we who make the world run. When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.