Quotes About Adaptation

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

How in the heck can I wash my neck if it ain't gonna rain no more?

It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect.

Life's not how we want it sometimes. It just is what it is. So do what you love and make the most of what it "is".

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends.

Left to themselves, people remake their origin stories every few generations to suit present circumstances.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends. I

Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn't supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans.

Tem coisas que não são de ruindade em si, mas danam, porque é ao caso de virarem, feito o que não é feito.

A superstição perniciosa generalizada é que é preciso deletar o anterior, para aceitar o novo. Que pobreza, que pobreza, que pobreza, que atraso! Se a memória aceita, se o perfil confere, se a senha foi dada, roda os dois programas ao mesmo tempo, roda os três, roda os vinte, porra!

In the world born from him, a person could now become anything.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: When the sun comes up, you'd better be running!

That's the magic of life. It happens in ways that challenges our plans.

You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.

Cope or die.

I had expected the well to be full for some reason. Not that it had ever been before. I kept looking for signs of water in the dark insides. I heard my bucket clank as it hit Against the walls that held nothing. I look at the bucket that came up empty And made a decision that changed my life. I will keep my bucket and find another well.

He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.

You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?" "No." "We learned to get mad.

I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

Surrender to the things that can't be changed is one of the keys to peace of mind.