Quotes About Adaptation

There is nothing people cannot get accustomed to, even to a life like mine, and so I must be careful, very careful indeed, not to become accustomed to it myself.

Puedo convertirme en lo que quieran que sea. Y creerlo. Creer, además, que soy encantadora. En cuanto lo creo, se convierte en realidad para quienes me ven y desean que sea de una manera acorde con sus gustos, también lo sé.

M'importava assai poco che l'accordo ottenuto fosse esteriore, imposto, probabilmente temporaneo; sapevo che il bene e il male sono una questione d'abitudine, che il temporaneo si prolunga, che le cose esterne penetrano all'interno, e che la maschera, a lungo andare, diventa il volto.

Adaptar-me-ia dificilmente a um mundo sem livros, mas a realidade não está ali, porque eles não a contêm inteira.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

I'd so rather be a living snack than dead meat.

Turning into a vampire is bad enough – I don't need to flunk out of school on top of it.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.

Fights are part of life, far better to learn to live with them.

One can never go back. You know that.

You try to disaster-proof your life. But the thing that causes all the trouble is something you'd never even thought about.

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.

The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving.

Sunny's mother had written that spatchcocking can't be done in less than 2 incisions. Sunny had taught herself how to do in it just one. She made a single one-inch clean incision through the neck bone just above the broken spine. Then with one swift move she deboned it through its anus, using just her thumb and middle finger. ---------------------- So imagine what will happen to the man who falls in love with her.

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we're going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one.

if the train doesn't stop at your station, it's not your train.

you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it

T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung, Stages of Life

La única forma de alcanzar el poder en un mundo que avanza demasiado rápido es aprender a tener calma.

we need to do more than just whine about that. We need to course-correct.

The biggest problem we have collectively is that our politics lag behind.

nunca muere. Morar en lo inmutable, mientras todo a nuestro alrededor cambia constantemente, es nuestra clave para alcanzar la paz interior.