Quotes About Evolution

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Je moet niet teruggaan naar plaatsen van vroeger. Dan vernietig je die gloed, de kern van je herinneringen.

I don't think we can ever say who we are in any fixed sense. Our own curiosity and sense of identification with others drive us constantly toward creative change.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

We crawl by inches. What we find today we will wipe from the blackboard tomorrow and reject it—unless it shows up again the day after tomorrow. And if we find anything which would suit us, that thing we will eye with particular distrust.

So wie es ist, bleibt es nicht.

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

In every life there are pauses and interruptions... points of time where one course of action ends and another begins; and by vicissitude of fortune, or alteration of employment, by change of place or loss of friendship, we are forced to say of something, this is the last .

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and -- as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis -- emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

And of course, everybody thinks it's just like it used to be when the Indians jazzed around and played 'You're it' with arrows.

Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted.

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.'"-

When we've ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical.

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?

I used to be Snow White but then I drifted.