Quotes About Adaptation

What difference does a little rain matter, since you'll be getting wet anyhow?

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

People might not change but their incentives could.

Sometimes a small change could make all the difference.

Accommodation. A different and sturdier kind of nest. AS

It's hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they're a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would've been easier if you'd never had it at all.

I wasn't sure if we'd ever be the same kind of friends we'd been when we were little. Maybe being two peas in a pod was over, but maybe we could be more like two wild blueberries: two of a kind, but different, too." -Lily

One thing I'd learned about moving was that once you were there, it was better to just look ahead. Because even if you went back to visit the places and people you left behind, it was never the same — except in photos.

I didn't like to quit anything, but sometimes things just don't work out and it's better to admit it and try something else.

One thing I'd learned about moving was that once you were there, it was better to just look ahead.Because if you even went back to visit the places and people you left behind, it was never the same - except in photos.

In November, some birds move away and some birds stay. The air is full of good-byes and well-wishes. The birds who are leaving look very serious. No silly spring chirping now. They have long journeys and must watch where they are going. The staying birds are serious, too, for cold times lie ahead. Hard times. All berries will be treasures.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Dicey looked out over the tall marsh grasses, blowing in the wind. If the wind blew, the grasses had to bend with it.

Once again, everything had changed on them. Perhaps it was all this changing that made her sad.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

if we have these personal problems, we must live with them and see how time brings some kind of personal evolution rather than a solution.

In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become, for the time being, a new creature.

The strangest thing in all man's travelling is that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only who is foreign, and now and then, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.

everybody had to find their own way of bearing things

If you had told me eighteen months ago that German aeroplanes would fly over this house, and that I would not take any notice of them but just go on as usual, I should have thought you were mad!" I ask her what has changed her outlook and she replies, "I think we have got beyond being frightened for ourselves. We don't matter, Hester. It is Britain that matters now. We are all soldiers now . .

When at last a new clerk was engaged to take my place they were forced to believe it and were frankly envious. " Gosh! " exclaimed Wrigson. " Fancy being able to lie in bed as long as you like! Fancy having nothing to do except amuse yourself! " " But that isn't the idea at all," I told him. " I'm exchanging one job—which I'm not particularly good at—for another job which I hope to do better.

You worry and fuss and try to make things go the way you think they should – and then you find that the other way was best. I'm going to try not to worry about things any more.

You've got to accept the good and the bad in life and make the best of them. I don't mean you should knuckle down—anything but! I mean it's no good trying to row against the tide.

Every year somebody invents something new — some new devilish machine to make our lives a burden