Quotes About Adaptation

Nunca son los mismos quienes construyen y quienes derriban.

Roy Peter Clark

But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn.

Las letras, como las flores, como las frutas, como los pueblos, suelen sufrir epidemias que las devastan y desfiguran.

Suspeito que estejamos vivendo um momento de metamorfose da nossa condição humana. Até agora temos sido habitantes do mundo da vida. Nosso habitat é constituído por florestas, animais, rios e mares. Somos seres biológicos, corpos. Mas agora estamos mudando de casa. Estamos trocando nossa casa biológica por uma outra casa, eletrônica.

Eu estou onde estou porque todos os meus planos deram errado". Isso é absolutamente verdadeiro. As pontes que construía para chegar aonde eu queria ruíam uma após a outra. Eu era então obrigado a procurar caminhos não pensados. E aconteceu, por vezes, que nem mesmo segui, por vontade própria, os caminhos alternativos à minha frente. Escorreguei. A vida me empurrou. Fui literalmente obrigado a fazer o que não queria.

It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness

I need new prayers, the old ones don't work anymore.

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

It would be an error to wish to spread Christianity from a center in Asia, where other peoples are still settled, and Buddhism would be equally false for the European population. No religious view is right if it is not suited to the innermost needs of the time, and such a view will never be able to give a cultural impulse.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

Is there anything in the jungle too little to be killed?

I think there are only two ways to live in this place,' said Sister Philippa, 'you must either live like Mr Dean or like the Sunnyasi; either ignore it completely or give yourself up to it.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Helloooo? I just made some changes in my life, and if I don't get back to you as soon as possible, then guess what? You were one of those changes.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process—picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.

After licking my wounds, I created new dreams. I planted more seeds. I had begun to understand that my ability to change my perception and reinvent myself was my trump card.

Drag really is all about dipping into pop culture and then reshaping it into something else.