Quotes About Flexibility

For a tree that has many branches, even a small breeze will shake some loose.

It's fair to say I don't know what I'm doing. I like to plot my life and proceed carefully, but life doesn't always follow a plan.

Peony, think of your own feet when you do this. You know how the toes are tucked under and how your mid-foot is folded in on itself? We accomplish this by rolling the bones under the foot as if you were rolling a sock. Can you do that?

IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can't imagine the places you'll end up. But most people don't do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy.

It is not the strongest among us who survive. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is those among us who are the most adaptable to change.

And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.

A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even trying. I thought I'd never learn, though it's really quite easy once you get the knack.

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Koudelka puzzled over this attempted readjustment of his point of view, then let it bounce harmlessly off his impermeable habits of thought.

There are many men like this; they can form a plausible theory and grasp its logical points, but take it away from them and destroy it utterly before their eyes, and they will not so easily lash their tired brains at once to build another theory in place of the one that is ruined.

We don't always get what we want out of life. It's how we handle what's left that matters. – Matt Jacobs (hero)

Every day is a new day and you've got to just go with the flow.

At times like these, she thought, it was probably a good idea to carry a small hand puppet.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails - Kilkenny

What we did not possess we had to make for ourselves or learn to do without, but the little I learned helped me to build a defense against the change that time would surely bring, to teach me that to live was to change, and that change was the one irrevocable law. Nothing remained the same.

Keep an open mind," he told me, "for no man can say what can or cannot be, nor can he say what does or does not exist.

Quit crabbing," Bert said mildly. "We're here now, and we've got to like it.

My castle is very different from what I planned, but I would not alter it...

Meg, and altogether too much of a weathercock just now for anyone to depend on. Don't make plans, Jo

My suggestion is to err in getting what seems at present too much room rather than not enough.

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what America means.