Quotes About Adjustment

We were no longer a whole, but three separate pieces. A mom. A dad. A kid sliced in half. Actually, that made us four pieces—'cause I have to be two people: Mom's Izzy and Dad's Isabella.

IT'S FUNNY—WHEN Dad was in California, Mom's house was where I lived. It was home. But now I don't really feel like I have a home—it's more like I live at Dad's place. Or Mom's place. I never say "I'm going home" anymore. It's "I'm going to my mom's." Or "I'm going to my dad's." Going. Not staying. Actually, it's not funny at all.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

We move, we grow, and our response to significant events in our lives can change how we function.

It's just taking some getting used to. The snarling, the hissing, the purring. Then I have to deal with it from the baby…." "Ha, ha," Mace stated dryly.

Uh…could you leave him here? He kind of comes with the place." Frowning, Lock glanced down. "Oh, jeez!" Oh, jeez?

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.

Different time, different place," I said. "Things can change. People can change.

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.

I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.

When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changingcircumstances, see, what you will soon transform into.

In time of macromental change, only the adaptable survive.

You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.

Maggy's diagnosis earlier in the year with juvenile onset type 1 diabetes had thrown them

I who had before clothed myself in the bright garb of sincerity must now borrow one of divers colours: it might sit awkwardly at first, but use would enable me to place it in elegant folds, to lie with grace.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.

things will never stay the same.