Quotes About Flexibility

Strength is not defined by the load you bear, it's defined by the amount you can bend before breaking.

Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you.

Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.

While you wait for your dream job, you can engage yourself with the available job.

All you need is love. It sounded true but wasn't. You needed a hell of a lot more than that. You needed tolerance and self-control, and you needed empathy and strength and discipline and flexibility. You needed serenity and good luck.

On land there was no choice. You conformed to the rigid structures others had left behind. But out there on the bay, it was different. Everything was fluid. Go here, go there. No signs, no narrow lanes, no walls, no paths worn into the water. Out there you were restricted only by the draft of your boat, your energy and will. Your imagination.

Weve gotta roll with the punches Learn to play all of our hunches. Makin the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition And learn to trust your intuition. Plowin straight ahead come what may.

There is always a possibility of being wrong.

its Easy for going with every wind but if go the wrong direction, we ourselves will have to embarked the sails tightening for to go in a different and Good direction.

Be Happy with what we Have Now in the Future it can change, but that is not Always to Better.

There is nothing so changeable as our own live. Er is niets zo veranderlijk als ons eigen leven.

There Will Be always others that know a better way.

cats." "A fellow named Robert Heinlein said, 'Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I have stretched in my spiritual practice to think and pray not only as a Christian, but as a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Native American, an atheist, a post-theist. I try on different hats as I light my candle, and while my thoughts might change or my prayers

The idea is to be open to forces outside of themselves—whether people or nature—to redirect them in ways that make their tasks and their lives easier.

should. I learned a long time ago to never close my mind to possibilities. Every time I did it made a fool of me.

Finally, the simplest, easiest Everybody Sort of Wins: Tom now sleeps in on Saturdays, and I sleep in on Sundays. Everybody sort of nearly wins! For the most part!

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.

if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten

a power struggle with your child. When that happens, be willing to back away and start over when you have changed your attitude—which will enable your child to change his.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.