Quotes About Adjustment

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

As hard as it is to change yourself, it's even harder to change someone else.

It's a game of constant adjustment and the guy that adjusts the best is the best player.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

If you can\'t do what you want, do what you can.

The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.

When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.

Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.

It's me, though. It's my fault for being like this. I'm going to have to get used to it.

Life might not work out as you'd want it to, but you just got on with it anyway.

A lot can change in a year.

says people of all ages compare the amount of control they have in a relationship to only the amount of control they used to have—not to the amount they feel they should have. When more control is allotted with time, people are satisfied; when control is cut back, people are angry.

After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around...

A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging. Wrong, I want to say. In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging. In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change.

they move them from a crib to a bed. It just seems that a bed should

I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —Leon C. Megginson

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.