Quotes About Flexibility

Better to accept whatever happens.

Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust.

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

belongs anywhere, even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)

I've learned only that you never say never.

We change, whether we like it or not.

When you're through changing, you're through.

You must change in order to survive.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

To remain young one must change.

Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.