Quotes About Adjustment

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one ... able to adapt himself to any situation.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

If you can't fight, and you can't flee, flow.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

Happiness comes from within a man, from some curious adjustment to life.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.

Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us.

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)

Change must be measured from a known base line.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

You must change in order to survive.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

Circumstances alter cases.