Quotes About Adaptation

change and loss travel together.

Whereas in their younger years, people often come to therapy to understand why their parents won't act in ways they wish, later on, people come to figure out how to manage what is. And so my question about my mother has cone from "Why can't she change?" to "Why can't I?

The nature of life is change

resist change.

We can't have change without loss.

Welcome to Holland." Written by Emily Perl Kingsley,

Julie started to see that we're all in Holland, because most people don't have lives that go exactly as planned.

that change and loss travel together.

it can either shackle you to the past or serve as an engine for change.

a mudança e a perda andam juntas. Não podemos ter mudanças sem perda, motivo pelo qual é tão frequente as pessoas dizerem que querem mudar, mas mesmo assim continuarem exatamente iguais.

Brez izgube ni spremembe, in prav zato se pogosto dogaja, da sicer ljudje izrazijo željo po spremembi, a kljub temu ostanejo pri starem.

Every relationship is a dance. The Dude does his dance steps (approach/retreat), and Charlotte does hers (approach/get hurt)—that's how they dance. But once Charlotte changes her steps, one of two things will happen—the Dude will be forced to change his steps so that he doesn't trip and fall down, or he'll simply walk off the dance floor and find somebody else's feet to stomp on.

needed to remember that he would never be that man again. As he was now, he did not

You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.

Hey, if you can't get what you want, maybe you could accept what you need.

Bloom where you're planted and if you can't do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Though I would never have believed it as a teenager, you do move past things, outgrow the person you were. Sometimes, just by staying alive, you find you have become someone who can live in the world after all.

sometimes life's like a bad waiter and serves you exactly what you don't want. You can cry and scream and order him to take it back, but in the end, you're the one who has to deal with what's finally set before you.

Honey, life can be a ballroom dance and it can be full of shit. Your job in both cases is to watch where you step.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.