Quotes About Flexibility

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

If you can't fight, and you can't flee, flow.

Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Make a virtue of necessity.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away, but he who bends before it abides.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.