Quotes about Adaptation
Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role
— Stephen Covey
Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
— Erwin McManus
Love is never stationary.
— Bob Goff
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
— Charles Swindoll
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
— Frank Herbert
I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.
— Ernest Cline
One should accept things as they are and not try to lift them to impossible heights; only if you let them be will they reveal their true worth.
— Etty Hillesum
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
— Eugene Peterson
Churches are not franchises to be reproduced as exactly as possible wherever and whenever—in Rome and Moscow and London and Baltimore—the only thing changed being the translation of the menu.
— Eugene Peterson
But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.
— Eugene Peterson