Quotes About Flexibility

no serious book can now be sure of surviving.

We are all making it up as we go along, unmaking our minds and remaking ourselves.

Many people are so comfortable and rooted in this way of knowing reality that they are unable to engage in any meaningful dialogue, being so sure of the 'facts', and that their version of 'reality' is the true one and nothing else possibly could be.

One has no right to make up one's mind about the future in advance.

When Myra appeared she said at once, Now, we want you boys to go on playing around just as if we weren't here. The first evening, he stayed out for poker with the guides, and she said in placid merriment, My! You're a regular bad one! The second evening, she groaned sleepily, Good heavens, are you going to be out every single night? The third evening, he didn't play poker.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

TIRESIA Medita su questi portenti, figlio. È comune a tutti gli uomini errare. Ma, dopo che ha errato, non sarà stolto né infelice colui che vi rimedia e non resta irremovibile. L'ostinazione condanna alla stoltezza.»

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

My teacher Charlie once said that whenever he left the house, he had notions about where he was headed, but he was never sure if he'd get there because spirit might lead him elsewhere. I admired his willingness to follow his vibes, which led him to situations that blessed and graced his life every

I look at the evidence. There's a quote I like. 'When the facts change, I change my mind.'

If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain has to cancel all his plans and get on a plane.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that." "I always thought my life would be a certain way," I say, gazing down at my plate.

Cling not to one mood, And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong. For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him, That he alone can speak or think alright, Such oracles are empty breath when tried. The wisest man will let himself be swayed By other's wisdom and relax in time.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness, Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

ODYSSEUS             I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.

In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all. And the same thing happens in sailing: make your sheet fast, never slacken,--and over you go

Only fools think that they alone Are wise, and hear no other point of view. À wise man is never ashamed to learn, To listen, and bend when the time is right. When a flood sweeps through a forest, the trees That bend survive, keep every leaf intact; The ones that don't snap off and are swept away. A wise man knows when to slacken sail; À fool refuses and overturns his ship.

I guess it's a lot better to initiate change while you can than it is to try to react and adjust to it. Maybe we should move our own Cheese." "What

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

There's no right one way to go through life.

Things will go wrong or end up differently than you had imagined, and that's OK. Life isn't about being perfect. It's about being the best you can possibly be and finding the good in everything.