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Quotes about Adaptation

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Our actions may be impeded... But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impeding to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
- Marcus Aurelius
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.
- Marcus Aurelius
You can live here as you expect to live there.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.
- Marcus Aurelius
We have various abilities, present in all rational creatures as in the nature of rationality itself. And this is one of them. Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it—turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself—so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
- Marcus Aurelius
When he speaks of death as a necessary change, and points out that nothing useful and profitable can be brought about without change
- Marcus Aurelius
We cannot step twice into the same river
- Marcus Aurelius
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.
- Marcus Aurelius
But the adjectives change," said Jimmy. "Nothing's worse than last year's adjectives.
- Margaret Atwood