Quotes About Evolution

There is a natural rhythm and flow of life. Things come and things go. I believ that when something goes, it is to make place for something new.

Be aware that where you DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE is exactly the area where you NEED to change the most. "I am willing to change.

As we gain more understanding, awareness and knowledge, then we will do things differently.

I am releasing the old and making room for the new.

Sometimes when we try to release a pattern, the whole situation seems to get worse for a while. This is not a bad thing. It is a sign that the situation is beginning to move. Our affirmations are working, and we need to keep going.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea.

it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.

the feelings flattened and folded and turned into something else, like emotional origami.

Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing," said the minister, softly. "That's why we need to adapt. It's never too late to change direction.

So that over time, clever became cunning. Dynamic became obsessed. Ambitious became ruthless.

Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.

Yes, I do. The ones who aren't growing and evolving, who are standing still. They're the ones who rarely got better.' 'Yes, that was it,' said Gamache. 'They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.' 'Ben,' said Peter.

Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.

Any real act of creation is first an act of destruction. Picasso said it, and it's true. We don't build on the old, we tear it down. And start fresh.

It smelled of the past, of a time before computers, before information was "Googled" and "blogged." Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge.

There is no way either would get into their wedding clothes. But they'd grown in other ways as well, and Gamach figured it was a good deal. If life meant growth in all directions, it was fine with him.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

The two women would 'put up' the preserves over a couple of days and invariably Marthe would ask, 'When does a cucumber become a pickle?' At first he'd tried to answer that question as though she genuinely wanted to know. But over the years he realised there was no answer. At what point does change happen? Sometimes it's sudden. The 'ah ha' moments in our lives, when we suddenly see. But often it's a gradual change, an evolution.

There was always, even now, a before and an after.

If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.

In Beauvoir's experience Darwin was way wrong. The fittest didn't survive. They were killed by the idiocy of their neighbors, who continued to bumble along oblivious.

Times change. You had to roll with it. But it was impossible to roll without getting bruised.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.