Quotes About Adaptation

I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

We're going to get through this. Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

Nothing gold can stay [...] so I guess we'll have to be silver.

I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

I'll go get the horse and buggy, you'll say. And I'll say, But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed- things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess.

I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider. So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

She didn't fit perfectly into my new life, but the beauty of our relationship is that she hadn't fit perfectly into my old life, either. Love teaches you that fitting is overrated; what you need to do is change the shape of your life to make the connection.

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed— —things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess." Sofia nodded. "Funny how we say it goes. That's the way life goes.

Cuando las cosas se rompen, lo que impide recomponerlas no es el hecho de que se hayan roto. Lo que sucede es que una pequeña pieza se pierde. Las demás no encajarían aunque quisieran. La forma ha cambiado definitivamente.

Flujo. El estado natural. Cambiamos de humor. Cambian nuestras vidas. Cambian nuestros sentimientos hacia el otro. Cambian nuestras relaciones. Cambia la canción. Cambia el aire. Cambia la temperatura del agua de la ducha. Acéptalo. Hay que aceptarlo.

To swim is to transform yourself into an unnatural creature, to take on an element that should not be your own. To swim is to experience the world differently, or to experience a different world temporarily.

notice how fickle things can be now I'm better, now I'm worse nowhere is it written how to deal with this

That's the thing about life and love - every time you take another look at them, there's something else that can be revised.

I guess I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break and if it starts small, it only gets wider. So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

I was once in the body of a blind girl,' I tell her. 'When I was eleven. Maybe twelve. I don't know if she was my favorite, but I learned more from being her for a day than I'd learn from most people over a year. It showed me how arbitrary and individual it is, the way we experience the world. Not just that the other senses were sharper. But that we find ways to navigate the world as it is presented to us. For me, it was this huge challenge. But for her, it was just life.

It's always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie.

It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself- I know I am myself- but I am also someone else

We think that time is the only thing that passes, but it also changes our relationship to places.

It's hard to remember someone when you don't know what they look like. Because A changes from day to day, it's impossible to choose a memory and have it mean more than that single day. No matter how I picture A, it's not going to be what A looks like now. I remember A as a boy and as a girl, as tall and short, skin and hair all different colors. A blur. But the blur takes the shape of how A made me feel, and that may be the most accurate shape of all.

flux, kb. perubahan yang terus-menerus. Situasi alami. Suasana hati kita berubah. Kehidupan kita berubah. Perasaan kita terhadap satu sama lain berubah. Perilaku kita berubah. Lagunya berubah. Udaranya berubah. Temperatur air pancuran berubah. Terimalah. Kita harus menerimanya.

Why try to angle together the wall souvenirs of our new-to-New-York lives, when we could invent new hieroglyphs to represent us?