Quotes About Adaptation

desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels,...

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

there is more than one way to play the game. And there is more than one way to win it.

One thing I've realized about new places is that they're like jeans. Sure, they might fit in, but they're not comfortable. They need time to be broken in

It wasn't the life I'd wanted, but it was the life I had, and I was finally starting to accept that.

The life you pan isn't the life that happens again

In AP Bio, I learned that the cells in our body are replaced every seven years, which means that one day I'll have a body full of cells that were never sick. But it also means that the parts of me that knew and loved Sadie will disappear. I'll still remember loving her, but it'll be a different me who loved her. And maybe this is how we move on. We grow new cells to replace the grieving ones, diluting our pain until it loses potency.

the life you plan isn't the life that happens to you.

I wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable. When

No era la vida que yo había planeado, pero sí la que tenía y, por fin, había empezado a aceptarlo.

Era yo el que no había entendido el cambio de sentido y se obstinaba en seguir por la ruta prevista.

An anti-culture is inherently unstable, said Rieff, but he doubted that people brought up in this social order would ever be willing to return to the old ways.

If you isolate yourself, you will become weird," Father Marc continued. "It is a tricky balance between allowing freedom and openness on the one hand, and maintaining a community identity on the other. The idea of community itself should not be allowed to become an idol. A community is a living organism that must change and grow and adapt.

I love change, I need it.

Instead, the Greeks looked elsewhere. The writing system that eventually caught their attention had been developed

As Plato had noticed, when Greeks left their homeland to establish communities abroad

Trithemius' concern for conservation was rare, indeed, and is a lesson to modern library managers who discard printed volumes, believing that e-books are the only way of the future.

I never had a brian till freak came along..

Life responds when we risk

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

In our case, as for countless other Jews, the price of integration was the loss of millennia of Jewish tradition. The Torah's instruction gave way to the moral void of modernity, a hectic dance over absence. Many

When you can't control your circumstances, don't let your circumstances control you.