Quotes about Adaptation
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
— George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
— Marianne Williamson
Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.
— John Maxwell
But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.
— Alice Hoffman
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
— Alice Hoffman
I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.
— Alice Hoffman
what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start. Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags
— Alice Hoffman
I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.
— Alice Hoffman
Loss does different things to different people. Some fall apart. Some, like the Finder, rebuild. I have done both. I have crawled under my table and refused to come out. I have covered myself with thorns and tattoos. I have planted a garden, reached out to my neighbors, begun to write down my story.
— Alice Hoffman
It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change
— Alice Hoffman
It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change
— Alice Hoffman
When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea.
— Alice Walker