Quotes About Adaptation

Cutting our expectations for a cure is a gift we can give ourselves. There is no cure for hot and cold. They will go on forever.

there's no end to the number of fresh starts you get. There's no fixed "you" doomed to stay in the same rut forever.

It starts with catching ourselves when we spin off in the same old ways. Usually we feel that there's a large problem and we have to fix it. The instruction is to stop. Do something unfamiliar. Do anything besides rushing off in the same old direction, up to the same old tricks.

We can get used to the fleeting quality of life in a natural, gentle, even joyful way, by watching the seasons change, watching day turning to night, watching children grow up, watching sand castles dissolve back into the sea. But if we don't find some way to make friends with groundlessness and the ever-changing energy of life, then we'll always be struggling to find stability in a shifting world.

We also change like the weather. We ebb and flow like the tides, we wax and wane like the moon. We fail to see that like the weather, we are fluid, not solid. And so we suffer.

From this point of view, the only time we ever know what's really going on is when the rug's been pulled out and we can't find anywhere to land. We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep.

push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

Rudolph Bahro. He writes, "When an old culture is dying, the new culture is created by those people who are not afraid to be insecure.

To get rid of anger you can change the situation or change how you think about the situation.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make!

Consider everything an experiment.