#ada

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#evolution #survival #survival-of-the-fittest #change

We first make our habits, then our habits make us. ↗

— John Dryden

#change #habit #self-improvement #change

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got. ↗

— James P. Lewis

#change #inspirational #motivational #change

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#madame-vileroy #useless #change

I was not meant to live anywhere except in Paradise. Such, simply, was my genetic inadaptation. Here on earth every prick of a rose-thorn changed into a wound. When the sun hid behind a cloud, I grieved. I pretended to work like others from morning to evening, but I was absent, dedicated to invisible countries. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

#change

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. ↗

— Leon C. Megginson

#change #charles-darwin #darwin #intelligence #misattributed

Dorothea: "What the fuck are you?" Nix: "A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind. ↗

— Clive Barker

#horror #horror-movies #macho #change

...my body has become another country and I feel like an unemployed illegal alien how will I survive where I do not belong I belong with you ↗

— Patrick Califia-Rice

#change #longing #poem #change

For [Stephen] Harper, a national daycare plan bordered on being a socialist scheme, a phrase he had once used to describe the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. For [Paul] Martin, whose plan would have transferred to the provinces $5 billion over five years, the national program was what Canadianism was all about. "Think about it this way," [Martin] said. "What if, decades ago, Tommy Douglas and my father and Lester Pearson had considered the idea of medicare and then said, 'Forget it! Let's just give people twenty-five dollars a week.' You want a fundamental difference between Mr. Harper and myself? Well, this is it. ↗

— Lawrence Martin

#canadian #canadian-history #canadian-politics #health-care #healthcare

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#adaptation #bending #breaking #change #chi-ro-jin