Quotes About Adaptation

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

Change is neither good nor bad. It's just change. Frightening, but survivable.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

That which doesn't destroy us . . ." "Leaves us scratching our heads and saying, 'What's next?

Change is hard.And it doesn't matter much whether it is change for good or ill. (Adam)

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you're in charge. Especially if you think you're in charge. (Adam)

Why was it that I was always trying to handle the werewolves instead of the other way around? Maybe because Adam's other form had big claws and great big teeth.

Coyote had told me once that changes were neither good nor bad—but brought with them some of both.

You should quit worrying about him and start worrying about how you are going to deal with accepting the situation you got yourself into.

Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change.

Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you are in charge. Especially if you think you are in charge.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before - but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

Most English speakers in Europe, I was discovering, had learned to speak British English rather than the American version.

I think some people are lucky to be so fond of a place they are going back to. But it's not lucky if they let that blind them to the place they find themselves

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

The hardest part about changing the new year is changing ourselves. We have to write each day differently than last year's days. If we do, we increase the chances we won't meet with last year's disappointments. Patricia Hickman

as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them