Quotes About Adaptation

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by soft falling.

what can I change so I never have to do this again?

To do that, you need to shift your mindset from one that focuses on the practice of law to one that focuses on how the business must work.

the fact that there's a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

There's no place to put the furniture. I was born in a little village in Germany. I can dream and imagine this new world, but I can't live in it.

economics is a living thing—and to live implies both imperfection and change.

Trying to figure out what happened to me isn't important. It's what I do with what I've learned that counts.

I'd try to stuff myself into one of these scenarios, but it's like wearing a size five sneaker when your foot is a seven--you can get by for a few steps, and then you sit down and pull off the shoe because it just plain hurts too much.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. —JAMES BALDWIN

When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have two options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can give yourself up to it.

Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days? No, I answer. They teach us to use spell-check.

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.

There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable.

Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning into someone she did not want to be.

I didn't know why it's called getting lost. even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turns to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected

And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? May be, Caleb thinks with a small shock, he isn't the same person he once was, either.