Quotes About Adaptation

If a person adapts to the changes in life easily, that person will be happy;

In response to someone else's suggestion, thought, or topic, always say "Yes, AND…" which means that you drop your train of thought, adopt theirs, and add something to keep the conversation flowing.

It's your right to change your mind. What was possible when you agreed to something might not be possible anymore. This is normal in a world where things are constantly changing. It's a shame to inconvenience someone, but you have to look after yourself.

Dan: You've ruined my life. Anna: You'll get over it.

Everything is a version of something else

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

And at first it's okay, you know, not perfect, but okay, and you get used to it. Then it gets a little worse, and you get used to that, too. Then one day, you wake up and you don't have the first freakin' clue how it got that bad.

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky's too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?' 'And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there's so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don't get any work done because we're all looking at it too much?

We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

Tread carefully, Marty. I mean it. The world has completely changed around you while you weren't looking.

Are you serious? Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.

Life does not have to go how you think it will...Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.

No, life didn't always go how you thought it might. Sometimes it didn't make any sense at all. You've just got to find a way to live there anyway.

soft man who made himself a hard man by drinking whisky in the classroom

Mrs. Mitchell," Henna greets, her voice three sizes smaller than a minute ago.

The world's ending. —Maybe sometimes it has to.

There Are No Ends, Only Changes.

Poor critter, Doc thought. Marooned here like Robinson Crusoe. And we're the cannibal savages.

Arthur liked limbo. He thrived on it. He'd built a life around fuzzy boundaries, overlapping identities, conflicts of interest. Limbo was his element.

Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.