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Quotes About Adaptation

You must change your life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
~ Thomas Jane
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.
~ Tim O'Brien
If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.
~ Wilt Chamberlain
The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
~ Will Rogers
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.
~ William Atherton
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
~ William James
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
~ Winston Churchill
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
~ Yann Martel
Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.
~ Young-Ha Kim
It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
~ Adam Rapp
When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it.
~ Adrian Grenier
You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.
~ Aeriel Miranda
Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.
~ Alan Brennert
Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
~ Alan Palomo
They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
~ Alanis Morissette
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
~ Alastair Campbell
At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
~ Albert Camus
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.
~ Alexandra Potter
Life should be all about change. But some things shouldn't change. And my three-piece suits are one of those things.
~ Ali Velshi
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.
~ Alice Eve
The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.
~ Amanda Hocking