Quotes About Adaptation

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

The universe is change; life is your perception of it.

Now it is true that these may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have the power of acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and an obstacle on the road helps us along this road.

It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

The world is maintained by change—in the elements and in the things they compose. That

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.

Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it?

XV. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.

And why is it so hard when things go against you? If it's imposed by nature, accept it gladly and stop fighting it. And if not, work out what your own nature requires, and aim at that, even if it brings you no glory.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. But thou art thinking only of seeds which are cast into the earth or into a womb: but this is a very vulgar notion.

You can live here as you expect to live there.

Remember what Marcus Aurelius said: Accept the things to which life binds you, and love the people with whom life brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything that happens in life.

Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the ones that make plants or children? Go deeper.

35. We have various abilities, present in all rational creatures as in the nature of rationality itself. And this is one of them. Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it—turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself—so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

It's the nature of the universe—all things must change, including you. Embrace it.

When he speaks of death as a necessary change, and points out that nothing useful and profitable can be brought about without change

El arte de vivir es más parecido al de la lucha que al de la danza en la medida que, ante lo que le cae a uno de improviso, hay que mantenerse preparado y sin caerse.

20. In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us—like sun, wind, animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

We cannot step twice into the same river