Quotes About Adaptation

In life, you can be unhappy, or you can change things. And even if there are things you can't change, you can often change your mind-set and question assumptions that are making life less goof than it could be.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

Every time I thought I understood the rules, they changed. Why was it that the damn rules always seemed to change for the worse?

Sociopaths spend their lives studying people, because we have to imitate things we don't understand, or feel, to blend in. It makes us some of the most observant people on the planet.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

Murphy's law is the only true dependable in my life most of the time.

We all build upon our ruins.

Subtlety, that was what was needed. Subtle had never been my natural bent, but I had learned. Eventually.

The world was what it was. And no amount of anger, or hatred, or self-loathing, or stubborn blindness would change it.

I had never yet had to try to fast draw a knife from a thigh sheath. It was probably going to look vaguely obscene, but if it kept me alive . . . hey, I can take a little embarrassment.   B

I was forcing him to think. He wasn't used to having to do anything that complex.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell

Our hearts are like starfish, regenerating what we've lost. We move forward, regroup, reconfigure; people find ways to be happy.

And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way - fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps.

I'll believe it when I see it, missy. Snakes don't change their scales, no matter how many times he"—Miss Gwen poked her sword parasol in the Gardener's general direction—"changes his name. What has it been? Four names so far? Five? It's getting hard to keep track. Make up your mind already.

My brother Toby , quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman . —Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it