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“That is a trick of human nature. We get used to things.”
― R. J. Palacio

“There is only one way to survive and thrive when faced with circumstances out of our control and for which we are unprepared: ADAPT.”
― Charles F Glassman

“By these days it was a demerit to be muscular. Each infant was examined at birth, and all who promised undue strength were destroyed. Humanitarians may protest, but it would have been no true kindness to let an athlete live; he would never have been happy in that state of life to which the Machine had called him; he would have yearned for trees to climb, rivers to bathe in, meadows and hills against which he might measure his body. Man must be adapted to his surroundings, must he not?”
― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops

“Resiliency comes from a discovered self, not a constructed self. It comes from the gradual emergence of your unique, inborn abilities in a process called individuation. The better you become, the more unique you become as an individual – and it never ends. If your identity is based mostly on external factors, you will feel anxious about change that threatens your identity sources. You will try to keep the world around you frozen in place. If your identity is based on your personal qualities, abilities, and values, you can let parts of your world dissolve away without feeling threats to your existence. With a strong inner sense of who you are, you can easily adapt to and thrive in new environments.”
― Al Siebert, The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks

“I am every color of the spectrum.”
― Steven Magee

“Being able to shift in light of new information and in light of new opportunities is a skill. Practicing will make you a more confident leader of change, now and in the future.”
― Stewart D. Friedman, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

“We assimilate a little this way, and a little that way. Life is only mutation.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces

“Change form, execute function.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Aucun fait dit normal, parce que rendu tel, ne peut usurper le prestige de la norme dont il est l'expression, à partir du moment où les conditions dans lesquelles il a été référé à la norme ne sont plus données. Il n'y a pas de fait normal ou pathologique en soi. L'anomalie ou la mutation ne sont pas en elles-mêmes pathologiques. Elles expriment d'autres normes de vie possibles. Si ces normes sont inférieures, quant à la stabilité, à la fécondité, à la variabilité de la vie, aux normes spécifiques antérieures, elles seront dites pathologiques. Si ces normes se révèlent, éventuellement, dans le même milieu équivalentes, ou dans un autre milieu supérieures, elles seront dites normales. Leur normalité leur viendra de leur ²Ô´Ç°ù³¾²¹³Ù¾±±¹¾±³Ùé. Le pathologique, ce n'est pas l'absence de norme biologique, c'est une autre norme mais comparativement repoussée par la vie.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“Life happens how it happens, and you either move with the maelstrom or die wallowing about the change in the winds.”
― Cora Carmack, Rage

“The environment around us is constantly changing, including innovations, friends, employment and moving to a different location; those who accept and excel at adaptation have smoother transitions, while others struggle.”
― R.J. Intindola

“No amount of acclimatization to very high altitude will prevent long term health problems and genetic adaptation processes from developing in the sea level adapted human.”
― Steven Magee

“Genetic adaptation processes may be triggered in sea level adapted humans that spend prolonged time at high altitudes.”
― Steven Magee

“Au fond, il peut y avoir pour un infirme une activité possible et un rôle social honorable. Mais la limitation forcée d'un être humain à une condition unique et invariable est jugée péjorativement, par référence à l'idéal normal humain qui est l'adaptation possible et voulue à toutes les conditions imaginables. C'est l'abus possible de la ²õ²¹²Ô³Ùé qui est au fond de la valeur accordée à la ²õ²¹²Ô³Ùé, comme, selon Valéry, c'est l'abus du pouvoir qui est au fond de l'amour du pouvoir. L'homme normal c'est l'homme normatif, l'être capable d'instituer de nouvelles normes, même organiques. Une norme unique de vie est ressentie privativement et non positivement.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“L'état pathologique ou anormal n'est pas fait de l'absence de toute norme. La maladie est encore une norme de vie, mais c'est une norme inférieure en ce sens qu'elle ne tolère aucun écart des conditions dans lesquelles elle vaut, incapable qu'elle est de se changer en une autre norme.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“La définition de la maladie demande comme point de départ la notion d'être individuel. La maladie apparaît lorsque l'organisme est modifié de telle façon qu'il en vient à des réactions catastrophiques dans le milieu qui lui est propre.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“La ²õ²¹²Ô³Ùé c'est une marge de ³Ù´Ç±ôé°ù²¹²Ô³¦±ð des infidélités du milieu.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“Inversement, le propre de la maladie c'est d'être une °ùé»å³Ü³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô de la marge de ³Ù´Ç±ôé°ù²¹²Ô³¦±ð des infidélités du milieu. Cette °ùé»å³Ü³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô consiste à ne pouvoir vivre que dans un autre milieu et non pas seulement parmi quelques-unes des parties de l'ancien. Au fond l'anxiété populaire devant les complications des maladies ne traduit que cette expérience.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“I have environmental adaptation diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“It is very undesirable to trigger adaptation processes in the human body.”
― Steven Magee

“Sometimes I'm the winter tree and most of these times, a gathering of autumn leaves.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Bright Light Adaptation Disease may occur with aging, as radiation exposures are cumulative.”
― Steven Magee

“Bright Light Adaptation Disease (BLAD) is a form of Outdoor Adaptation Disease (OAD).”
― Steven Magee

“Equatorial Adaptation Disease (EAD): People that have biologically adapted to the tropics and become sick outside of the tropics.”
― Steven Magee

“Continuous daytime full spectrum 10,000 lux light therapy for Bright Light Adaptation Disease (BLAD) made me feel sickly and caused headaches during the first week of treatment.”
― Steven Magee

“The treatment I used for Bright Light Adaptation Disease was a daily high dose of vitamins B6, B9, and B12 in conjunction with bright light therapy.”
― Steven Magee

“The low light indoor environment becomes biologically toxic to people with Bright Light Adaptation Disease (BLAD).”
― Steven Magee

“Be flexible enough to change in the face of novelty and strong enough to face adversity”
― Sivashanmugam

“It’s not like it was before.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Sometimes plans don’t come together. It’s okay. The important thing is to remain optimistic. And adaptable. To pay attention to what’s here, now, while always keeping a bright and happy future in the back of your mind and at the finish line somewhere in front of your eyes. Another opportunity will show itself.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo