Quotes About Adjustment

J'aimais les mots et la sensation de les voir s'ajuster et tomber à leur place comme des pièces de monnaie dans la fente d'un distributeur automatique

I foresee death by culture shock.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

Things didn't turn out the way they used to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

Then normal sank.

Don't fight the trail. Take what it gives you.

We say the rarájipari is the game of life," Ángel said. "You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

It doesn't make sense to dwell on things you can't do anything about.

Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or … whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things.

It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.

since she wasn't a sad person, she tried to go on as if she hadn't lost anything.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

We still got roaches on the bed, walls, and floors, but Troy ain't even crying 'bout them no more. He probably too used to them by now.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

There is nothing in this world, incredible though it may seem, to which the human body and with it the human soul cannot in time learn to adapt itself.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

within weeks, you can run up and down easily, your feet knowing exactly where to go. But only in your own house. On another man's steps, look out.

How would he react to a Japan that is so radically different, on the surface at least, from what it was in 1944?

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

You've got to grow where you're planted

Changing is what people do when they have no options left

From a young age, he had to learn to survive, and to shape-shift into whatever pleased the people he was around.