Quotes About Evolution

There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —Leon C. Megginson

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.

Learn from your mistakes and don't do the same.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Things change, and so do I. A best friend changes too, I always wonder why.

If someone makes a mistake and learns from it they tend to not make the same mistake again. If they do make the same mistake again is it still a mistake?

I tell folks all the time, I'm glad I was able to start out my life like that, but I'm also glad it's over,

Once they move, they're gone. Once you move, life starts over again.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Forgetting about the past will make things better for the future.

Forgetting the past & moving on, that's our only thing we can work on.