Quotes About Adaptation

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance, revert at once to yourself, and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better group of harmony if you keep on going back to it.

15. Remember: you shouldn't be surprised that a fig tree produces figs, nor the world what it produces. A good doctor isn't surprised when his patients have fevers, or a helmsman when the wind blows against him.

The directing mind is that which wakes itself, adapts itself, makes itself of whatever nature it wishes, and makes all that happens to it appear in the way it wants.

13. The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.

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 should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.

Think of the countless changes in which you yourself have bad a part. The whole universe is change, and life is but what you deem it.

39. Adapte-se às coisas que o destino lhe reservou. Busque amar, verdadeiramente, as pessoas com quem tem de se relacionar.

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.

There is nothing bad in undergoing change—or good in emerging from it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it

The nature of the universe delights in nothing more, than in altering those things that are, and in making others like unto them. So that we may say, that whatsoever it is, is but as it were the seed of that which shall be.

For by these the mind doth turn and convert any impediment whatsoever, to be her aim and purpose. So that what before was the impediment, is now the principal object of her working; and that which before was in her way, is now her readiest way.

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

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

Don't helicopter in at seventeen thousand feet, because sooner or later you and your people will die on the mountain.

Change the ideas and keep the forms the same, and you will have changed little.

And the only reason that "running around your backhand" has become an idiom for avoiding a weakness is that this is exactly what we see great tennis players do, time and time again, whether it's Juan Martín del Potro, Rafael Nadal, or countless others. The phrase describes the act of avoiding a weakness in order to play to a strength, and the lesson from the best is that this leads toward high performance, not away from it.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error

If your career doesn't work out, write a book about it.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.