Quotes About Adaptation

I realized that from now on, my mom's life and mine would have to be completely, unmistakably different. Nothing about us was the same: the times we lived in, the ways we regarded the world, the things we valued.

E' un po' come quando si costruisce una casa: si cerca il terreno, si assume un progettista e c'è persino chi vuole scegliere in prima persona tutto il materiale di cui saranno fatti i muri. Io però non sono una persona di questo tipo, preferisco che le cose mi capitino quasi per caso, quindi cerco di farmele andare bene e intanto imparo a conoscerle.

This was what it took, I realized, to be something that survived. Not just constancy, or strength. But—like the ever-flowing river—to engulf everything that came your way and move swiftly on as though it had never been.

In qualunque famiglia ci sono problemi che visti dal di fuori sembrerebbero insuperabili. Eppure ogni giorno si mangia lo stesso, si fanno le pulizie, il tempo scorre senza troppi drammi, ci si abitua alle situazioni più assurde. In una famiglia c'è una promessa implicita, incomprensibile per gli altri, di restare uniti per quanto le cose possano farsi complicate

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness. So I became a woman, and here I am.

If I try to say what it is now, it's very simple: I realised the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours.

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

Please do not steal my kitchen stove. If you need a stove steal something else like the telephone book or that empty bottle of Woostershire Sauce standing on the parlor mantelpiece with the daisy in it, and sell them to buy a new stove with the money. I've had that stove for ten years and it has only just learned how to cook and it would be very annoying to me to have to get a new one and have to teach it how I like my potatoes done.

To take things as they be -- Thet's my philosophy. No use to holler, mope, or cuss -- If they was changed they might be wuss.

Something ordinary in the past becomes valuable in the future

How many times since then have I rejected Love because it did not present itself the way I expected, in a form acceptable to me?

It is a great thing to see something familiar from an unfamiliar angle for the first time, even if it is because you have been worried and lost for longer than you would have liked.

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.

Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our own fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people's pastures

She chattered on about the Inn. 'I'm a genius,' she said. 'I got three hundred people into two rooms that were meant to hold two hundred and fifty. And they're happy. Deep down, people are really sardines. They love being squeezed together.

It's amazing what you have to buy after a fire has completely wiped you out - things you never think about, like toothbrushes and boots and a dictionary. Of course, people gave us things, but mostly they didn't fit, and Mother said this was no time for us to go around looking like orphans of the storm.

Everything in the world is part of nature. All the creatures, even the weird ones, are just figuring out how to grow, how to change. How to survive. And maybe they need some help, but if they do, that's okay. I think they'll be okay.

People heal, sweetheart. We feel things, and then feelings change. People change. All the time.

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, . . . . Look at what you have now.

When the dust settled, they talked reasonably about the inevitability of change, the idea that they had to let go what might have been and accept what was.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, Leo. Look at what you have now.

Because life isn't static," he says. "It keeps changing. We think we know where we are, then something happens and we're somewhere else, and we have to find our way all over again.