Quotes about Adaptability

Staying the course involves some bends in the road. Being stubborn, refusing to go with the flow, will leave you in a ditch with an airbag exploded in your face. Never give up, course correct when necessary, and have faith that if you have the desire, the Universe has your back.

WHO DO I NEED TO BE FOR THIS SITUATION NOT TO BOTHER ME?

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.

Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.