Quotes About Adaptation

Some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting around for a chance to change it.

In the last few weeks, I had changed. But in my mind, those changes had been for the better. I was finally getting over things, stepping over the careful box I'd drawn around myself all those months ago.

He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me.

He thinks he can fix anything. And if he can't fix it, he can at least do something with the pieces of what's broken.

It's both, it all depends on how you choose to live it. Forever is always changing.' [About if life is short or long]

Perhaps because it was nighttime, when things that might have felt odd in daylight instead seemed just right.

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, to how it holds you to a place.

Family isn't something that's supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

I hope so. But that's just the thing, right? Family isn't something that's supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

Embrace the messy and when things do come together just right, you'll always be pleasantly surprised.

It was like Abe took some part of him when he went, you know? He's never been the same.

And with that, my mother was off and running. Hard to believe that once schmoozing was as painful to her as multiple root canals. But when you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well

Something was changing, something I could sense even though I'd never been here before, like the way baby turtles know to go to the water at birth, instinctively. They just know.

You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. I

He moved through our house now with the ease of someone who no longer considered himself a guest, no sidestepping knickknacks and perching on the edges of furniture but walking easily across the floors as if he belonged there.

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less.

Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

EXPLORING A REAL WORLD APPLICATION FOR WAIT

Help your puppy get used to being ignored sometimes.

As long as you don't react to a new stimulation, your puppy won't, either — they'll get conditioned to new noises, sights, and people, often without pause or hesitation.

The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

If Americans can transform Memorial Day, technically a remembrance of all our war dead ever, into the official kickoff of summer, we can handle adapting one demoralizing battle into a wholesome, chipper get-together.