Quotes About Adaptation

If we stay as we have been, then we will die, just as a pool dries up in the summer if there is no rain. We must change if we want to live. But we must also remain who we are and who the gods gifted us to be.

But it's better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle.

Cross that bridge when you come to it

What family isn't held together by a cartilage of lies? In these fractured times, these days of spin, you have to make the family you can.

Aber jede noch so kleine Verbesserung meines Zustandes entfernte mich weiter von George, und in Wahrheit war seine Gesellschaft die einzige, nach der mich verlangte. Ich empfand es als Verrat, dass ich lernte ohne ihn zu leben.

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

He was a stranger here too; he noticed his accent had softened and his expectations of people had hardened.

To have been always what I am; and so changed from what I was

There is only one way to deal with a goat.

I don't know how others reconcile what happened before with what happens now. For me, the past is a cool, dark pond in which I will always stand partially submerged. That's just the way it is.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.

Things were slipping on me — oranges at first — then everything.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

reassigned to Zhenjiang

I got up the nerve to ask her if she remembered that first visit and my terrible faux pas. She pretended, in true Japanese fashion, that it had never happened.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.

We shall have no leaders left before long!" the pastor cried bitterly. "We are not abandoned," the doctor told him quietly. "Neither is one man indispensable, however much we may mourn him personally. Each of us does as much as he can and when he disappears someone else finds the courage to take his place.

sometimes we must accept what we can and cannot do.

the end of the world as they knew it.

Barn Owls were known for their extremely sensitive hearing. They could contract and expand the muscles of their facial disks to funnel the sound source to their unevenly placed earholes.

Diversity is the product of the effort to be a Christian in different cultural contexts. What it means to be a Christian should not look the same from one cultural context to another-say, from pagan ancient Rome to contemporary Catholic Spain. One lives a Christian life differently depending on the cultural materials with which one has to work and the challenges to the Christian faith specific to that context.