Quotes About Adaptation

I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories.

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Sometimes we are too busy trying to get through a closed door that we miss the open window beside it.

Adjustments, understanding and living the moment are recipe for having a good life.

Realize that not everything in life is meant to be perfectly understood. Live, let go, learn what you can, and don't worry about the things you can't change.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me.

roots clung hard a moment before yielding

On peut apprendre à une vipère à vous manger dans la main sans pour autant lui enlever le goût de mordre.

Then, child, make another.

If he turned gray, then he did. I would not go on anymore weaving my cloths by day and unraveling them again at night, making nothing.

I saw then how I had changed. I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped

Puoi usare una spada come un bastone da passeggio, tuttavia ciò non cambia la sua natura.

But even I could not fill each minute with fear. I have heard that men who live near a waterfall cease to hear it - in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom.

Begitukah semua orang, yang begitu lama meninggalkan negerinya, sehingga mereka tak betah lagi dimana pun, baik Belanda maupun di Hindia? Atau, kita akan terbiasa lagi, bila saja mempunyai keluarga, sebuah home?

Losses are not retrievable. They are not setbacks. In the blankness left, perhaps other things come, a new thing, a different shape for the last thing's recollection.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

He thought about how life never turns out like you think and hope it will.

There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.

Stop working against the world, I counseled myself. Love the one you're with. Love the color green. But I did not love the green, nor did I want to have to love it or pretend to love it. The most I can say is that I abided it.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate on them well," wrote Emerson. Is it true? If so, who can bear to believe it?

There is simply no way that a year from now you're going to feel the way you feel today", a different therapist said to me last year at this time. But though I have learned to act as if I feel differently, the truth is that my feelings haven't really changed.

Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving.