Quotes About Adaptation

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long.