Quotes About Adaptation

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. —Robert Burns

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition… Yet change is life's only constant.

It's your story, sweetheart. Not just your story to pass on. Your story to make up as well. Over time, stories change; they shift; they become something new but with elements of the original and elements of what's to come.

It happens to everyone," she assured Princess Stephanie. "It does?" Stephanie doubted it. "Sure. Everyone's someone else sometimes. Everyone transforms. Maybe not in quite the same way as you, but that's sort of the point. The curse - if you will - it happens to everyone, but not to any two people in the same way. And no one likes it, no matter who's waiting inside.

lots of fish switch genders?" Her parents had no idea. "They switch or they're both. Both at once, or first one then the other. Clown fish all start as boys, but some of them become girls later. Parrot fish are all girls, so then one of them has to become a boy—she changes color and everything—but then if another boy comes along, she might go back to being a girl again.

children being the enemies of plans and also the enemies of anything new besides themselves.

solutions, can be very volatile.

I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

In uncharted territory, we need new thinking, new ways of processing intense emotions, and new behavioral choices.

Patience allows you to shift attention in a positive way.

We have to expect the unexpected and keep going, even without a map or direction.

There is no "new normal" because becoming habituated to severe pain is neither "normal" nor healthy.

We can plan our work and work our plan; however, being organized and methodical will not protect us from the unexpected.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life. Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.

We need to unlearn the habits of impatience and take stock of those beliefs about life that no longer hold true.

The three cycles of loss center on our sense of control, safety, and identity.

GUY: You're a writer? ME: Yeah. GUY: Any of your books made into a movie? ME: Sigh.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

Song and dance are explosion and interruption, and sometimes the only way to keep up with what's happening.

Elephants operate on a steadfast principle that all other lifeforms must give way to them, and as far as they were concerned, foreign tourists at a sit down dinner around a swimming pool were no different than a troop of baboons at a swimming hole.