Quotes about Adaptation

It's not the Dark Destroyer no more, because everything synonymous with the Dark Destroyer I don't want to know.

The intelligent man, who exploits available resources for knowledge of the needs and wants of his fellows, will be more inclined to adjust his conduct to their needs than those who are less intelligent.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.

You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way of thinking.

No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it in the first place.

One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. —CARL JUNG, THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE PSYCHE As

This resistance to change is so common, in fact, that it is almost what we expect from religious people, who tend to love the past more than the future or the present.

We don't think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Francis of Assisi was a master of making room for the new and letting go of that which was tired or empty.