Quotes About Flexibility

Sometimes love does not look like what you had in mind

she is willing to try anything that affords you the opportunity to shake up the Etch A Sketch of everything you suppose is true, a chance to question all your secret opinions: that this thing is good, that one is bad; that this person is better, that one is worse.

Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no single fixed form to express such a changing relationship.

The pattern of our lives is essentially circular. We must be open to all points of the compass; husband, children, friends, home, community; stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider's web to each breeze that blows, to each call that comes.

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change

One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.

And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

Remember, my dear, you are dealing with the world as it is, not as you believe, maybe rightly, that it ought to be.

Remember, my dear, you are dealing with the world as it is, not as you believe, maybe rightly, that it ought to be. There will be a great many things you can achieve not by attacking them but with a little patience and a modicum of flattery

And if they are forced to a new idea, they turn it over like a child with a toy.

We are dogmatic only when it comes to defending our lack of dogma.

Twist the poetry as you will.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

I always think it's a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn't feel the need to be in constant control of things.

Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.

She has. No. Plan.

he was a party-giver." "But he never felt party-giving was really his true life," Poppy reminded her. "Well, no." "And that's where he and I differed," Poppy said. "Because I was always telling him, 'Look,' I said. 'Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.

And that's where he and I differed, Poppy said. Because I was always telling him, 'Look,' I said. 'Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.

The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.