Quotes About Adjustment

Love is a Beautiful Thing that makes us to Adjust ourselves Forcely

You're hurt.""No. No, I'm fine. It's not blood. The militiamen were adjusting Sir Lewis's trebuchet, and there was a mishap. You took a melon for me." She smiled, even though her lips trembled.

Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.

That's me! Elf had said. I reminded her that she had her sight, she could see, she'd always been able to see but she told me she'd never adjusted to the light, she'd just never developed a tolerance for the world, her inoculation hadn't taken. Reality was a rusty leg trap.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

he didn't want to disrupt the boy's life any more than he already had.

She was like an old wound beneath a bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Men adapt to captivity, some better than others.

You have only recently been introduced to the types of silences that exist in a home with one occupant, and emotionally you stagger about this new reality like a sailor returned to land after decades at sea.

Who ever saw one physician approve of another 's prescription, without taking something away, or adding something to it?

When all around is dark, there is nothing to do but to wait until the eye accustomed to the dark

She knew she would never really recover. It was as though her pen ran out of ink while writing a letter. She had picked up another containing ink of a different color and continued; but even if the words and the lines of thought remained the same, something had altered.

Matt discovered that no matter how terrified he'd been at first, it wasn't possible to stay terrified. It was as though his brain said, Okay. That's enough. Let's find something else to do.

All right, keep your hair on,' said the old singer, taking his off and adjusting a curl. 'Have another drink'.

To [Heartland president Joseph Bast], it looks like the end of the world. It's not, of course. But it is, for all intents and purposes, the end of his world.

is the new stability.

tipped backwards

If the first plan you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan. If this new plan fails to work, replace it, in turn, with still another, and so on until you find a plan which does work.

As the months went by, I learned to confuse routine with normality.

Curiously, she is not afraid, knowing as she does that love is mostly the avoidance of hurt, and furthermore, she is accustomed to obstacles, and how they can be overcome by readjusting her glance or crowding her concerns into a shadowy corner.

From surfeit to loss is a short line.

Foster children could pack quickly. Every move Matt had ever made took only minutes, whereas when real people moved, they spent weeks getting ready, filling huge vans and leaving a trail of cardboard cartons across an entire yard. One suitcase, one box, one duffel bag, one bookbag, and Matt would be done.

Transitions are bumpy, even the happy ones. We all go through them at some point. It takes time to adjust. Often, we feel like we should be much farther ahead than we are—unless we remember that "bare kernels" are always sown in weakness. It's not bad to have your identity change. God promises that if we trust Him, He will replant us to reap eternal rewards.

Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.