Quotes About Adaptation

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with that is what makes the difference.

Life is not what it's supposed to be.It's what it is.The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

She knew how his mind worked. He would process their discussion over the next few days. At odd times he would utter an objection out of the blue. While buttering his toast he might say, "That lawn is a disaster, you know." Or when he slid into bed at night, "The property taxes are probably triple what we pay now." She would reply with a smile and a nod and revel in a secret satisfaction. Let him brood over the downsides, all the while becoming accustomed to the idea.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I am rooted, but I flow.

Changer, c'est toujours perdre un bloc de soi. On le sent qui se détache, après un temps d'adaptation. C'est un deuil et un soulagement en même temps.

The seed is put in the ground, and earth and air and water are placed around it. Does the seed become the earth; or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a plant, it develops after the law of its own growth, assimilates the air, the earth, and the water, converts them into plant substance, and grows into a plant.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Did you suffer? Terribly. In fact, it tore my life apart. Up until that time I didn't really understand the transformation that was going on in Russia. When I had come home from the GDR, it was clear to me that something was happening. But during the days of the coup, all the ideals, all the goals that I had had when I went to work for the

I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in beautiful Leningrad, a boy who loved his parents and went obediently to school. A boy who was yanked out of that life and dumped in a strange land where life followed different rules.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Who has not the spirit of his age,Of his age has all the unhappiness.

They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

Humans are so much more complex than dogs, with such a broad range of feelings—though there were many times I missed the Yard, for the most part I was now living a far richer life, even though I often didn't know what was going on.

Lennon said that life's what happens when you're making other plans.

Sometimes that happens to us, way before we're ready, a moment that changes everything. Life will be going along, like normal, and then one day without warning you find out that nothing will ever be the same.

if I went through life only talking to people who were glad to see me, I wouldn't be much of a repo man, now would I?