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"We change when circumstances necessitate it, we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all."
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"If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation."

"For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change."

"Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process."

"There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way."

"While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world."

"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."

"The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart."

"But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die."

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

"In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless."
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"Live today facing forward-with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment."

"On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless. And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay."

"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."

"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"

"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."

"It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression."

"The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable."

"It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back."
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