Quotes About Evolution

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

You're becoming. You're in the process of becoming. You just don't know what yet. That felt right. It felt okay to stop there, for now, as we walked through the future.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

And after the end?Another beginning.

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.

As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

No, he finally said. I don't think you're boring. I think there are times you don't allow yourself to be interesting...but clearly that can change.

Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

He wasn't always like this. Nobody is ever always like this.

And here we are, so different from who we were on September 10th. And also different from who we were on the 11th. And the 12th. And yesterday. Sometimes you see the before/after. And sometimes it's as soft as saying hello.

But for today it is working in this awkward kind of working. And that is enough for a beginning.

Nothing gold can stay [...] so I guess we'll have to be silver.

To do this—to understand the full extent to which people can define themselves beyond their bodies—I have had to learn and learn and learn, and then learn some more. And by learn I mean unlearn…and then learn and unlearn and learn some more.

The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.

It's a goodbye to some things, and hello to others -A

I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

I guess I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider.

You're on your own … until you're not.

I do believe that most of the time your life changes, you don't realise in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.