Quotes About Adapting

I've learned to focus on what I do have control over: myself. And if things must change, first I must change.

Opportunities come and go. Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill.

I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children—people dumber than you learn about them.

This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to—how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly.

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We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Ser dos significa aceptar un futuro indeteminado

the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with the elastic gone, the days down around my ankles.

If things were no longer going on the way they should be, didn't that mean anything could happen?

No lesson is permanent. Wisdom thus is always work in progress.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

Then I didn't think much about it, I just did it. I started wearing some of the things he left behind, especially his bathrobe, some shirts too, but only in the house. I read his books, I am embarrassed at this. I also did some things to the place I knew he would like. He always complained about my plants, so I got rid of them. It seems strange to think about it now, but at the time I found some comfort in it. [ACCOUNTANT, AGE 38, SEPARATED AFTER LIVING TOGETHER 13 YEARS]

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

...but ready or not,life goes on.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.