Quotes About Adaptation

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

If you find the here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally...

A situation needs to be either dealt with or accepted. Why make it into a problem?

If you are awake enough, aware enough, to be able to observe how you interact with other people, you may detect subtle changes in your speech, attitude, and behavior depending on the person you are interacting with.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form—or a species—will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.

You have a name, a past, a life situation, a future. But in one essential respect, you are not the same person you were before

Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

you cannot cope with the future.

Most crawling reptilians, the most earthbound of all creatures, have remained unchanged for millions of years. Some, however, grew feathers and wings and turned into birds, thus defying the force of gravity that had held them for so long. They didn't become better at crawling or walking, but transcended crawling and walking entirely.

Acepta lo que venga tejido en el diseño de tu destino porque, ¿Qué podría acomodarse más adecuadamente a tus necesidades? Esto fue escrito hace dos mil años por Marco Aurelio, uno de esos seres humanos extraordinariamente escasos que tuvieron el poder mundano al mismo tiempo que la sabiduría

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

What could be more heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones.

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

You're analog players in a digital world.

Attends-toi à l'inattendu! Voilà comment je peux concilier ma crainte de catastrophe réelle avec mon espoir, que je maintiens toujours, envers et contre tout.

En Lima, capital de Perú, la interrupción del abastecimiento alimentario ha llevado a centenares de miles de habitantes de zonas rurales, que habían emigrado a la ciudad en busca de trabajo, a tener que volver a sus pueblos recorriendo a veces centenares de kilómetros a pie por falta de transporte.

It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them.

As you know I am not of Barsoom; your ways are not my ways, and I can only act in the future as I have in the past, in accordance with the dictates of my conscience and guided by the standards of mine own people.

I had had to discard my rifle

Always, everywhere, man is man, nor has he altered greatly beneath his veneer since he scurried into a hole between two rocks to escape the tyrannosaurus six million years ago.