Quotes About Adaptation

Yet, all things must pass, but especially time, and with the months and then the years, I came slowly to have a place in the scheme of things.

Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others." "Every man believes that. It isn't so. Slay the ones you can as they come to hand, and after a while you get used to the ones you can do nothing about.

there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.

When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday.

So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

But a wall that will not yield to a battering ram can still be breached by the gentle twining of ivy.

So many things were easier to live with if you didn't give them much thought. p. 28

You can't go back," she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' Ã¢â'¬Â She

You will change. I think. Not all change is bad. Change is seldom good or bad; it's only change. A tadpole becomes a frog. A poker is beaten into a blade. A chicken becomes meat. In a dream, I saw a feather slowly hammered into a blade. I saw the hard nut crack and become a mighty tree. I saw the young doe slain and cut into meat. You will become something different tonight.

Mornings come, whether we want them or not.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change are what makes life interesting.

Nor do I need your pity. I accept my current fortune. I've seen my situation change before, and I will see it change again. I don't need you to change it.

Wherever there is change, a clever man can find a profit.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.

You can't go back', she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. 'That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be'.

We all get used to things we once swore we could never live with

I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

It was as it had to be. I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

But gone was gone and done was done, I told myself. And life would go on.

I had Hap still, I reminded myself, but on the heels of that thought I knew I did not. Hap was a young man striking out on his own. For me to cling to him now and make him the focus of my life would have been the act of a leech. So who was I, when I stood alone, stripped of all others? It was a difficult question. p. 449