Quotes about Adaptation

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.

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

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.

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.

It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change

It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change

When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea.

It's not for us to choose our times, Jacob. But we must be ready when they come.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Don't fight change; embrace it, and you will step into the fullness of what God has in store.

Their minds had become conditioned to accept not having enough, to always struggle and lack. The problem is that if you accept it as your way of life, you won't do anything about it. It's easy to get comfortable with mediocrity and just adapt to your environment.

Just because it happened one way doesn't mean it's always going to happen that way. Stay open for change. Be willing to accept the new thing God is doing.