Quotes About Adaptation

If there was no change, there would be no universe.

One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you cope with.

If I accept it, rather than fight against it, things might change. I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

Ksatria cahaya kadang-kadang berperilaku seperti air, mengalir memutari penghalang jalannya. Aliran air sungai menyesuaikan diri dengan alur apa pun yang tampak mungkin, tetapi sang sungai tak pernah melupakan tujuannya, yakni laut. Meskipun sangat rapuh dari sumber mata airnya, perlahan tapi pasti dia mengumpulkan kekuatan demi kekuatan dari sungai-sungai lain yang dijumpainya.

When you can't go back, you only have to worry about the best way of moving forward.

I ask myself how I can exist in two such different worlds in one day.

Never go to failure but vary the difficulty of your sets. For example, your estimated best in the side press is four reps. Some sets do one or two reps, others three. Play by the seat of your pants.

Do not freak out about training the same movement or the same body part for two or more days in a row. It is a standard operating procedure among Russian athletes. For example, the Russian National Powerlifting Team benches up to eight times a week. The key to successful frequent training is constant variation of the loading variables: weights, reps, sets, rest periods, tempo, exercise order, exercise selection, etc.

I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.

J]e t'ai dressée à te soumettre, de même qu'une fleur subit le soleil et la pluie.

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.

Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.

Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can

Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience." Yul-chun

Nothing is destroyed, only changed.

There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me were buried there, and now it is a different life in my house.

We've been told that Henry Ford never fired employees but shifted them around until he found the niche that was right for them. A

Shikataganai, she added. It can't be helped.

Live your life as an experiment.

The more you just try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face-to-face.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.