Quotes About Adjustment

Taoism as the "art of being in the world," for it deals with the present—ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from to-morrow. The Present is the moving Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity seeks Adjustment; Adjustment is Art. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

It was what you did when you resurfaced after a year undercover: You hooked your wagon to the repetitions of domesticity.

Surprising how well you can sleep on an old Morris chair if you work hard daytimes, or even on the floor if you get cramped. It's all a matter of getting used to it.

The concrete methods of adjusting the mind are called susoku-kan and koan kufu21 in Japanese.

If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.

Look at things the way they are and not the way you wish they was and you'll get along all right.

In other words, in 1919 relatively few people could become disenchanted with liberal modernity because only a tiny minority had enjoyed the opportunity to become enchanted with it in the first place. Since then, however, billions more people have been exposed to the promises of individual freedom in a global neo-liberal economy that imposes constant improvisation and adjustment – and just as rapid obsolescence.

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Change is hard.And it doesn't matter much whether it is change for good or ill. (Adam)

Adults are the same way — we often need a little time to adjust to the invitation. But too frequently we give adults only one shot. We think, "Well, I made the invitation and he didn't take it. I tried. It's his choice and I'm done." Instead we need to give them time to respond in their own way. Gracious Space encourages us to make multiple invitations over time.

If a person adapts to the changes in life easily, that person will be happy;

Flexibility and the ability to adapt are paramount to any great conversation.

Dan: You've ruined my life. Anna: You'll get over it.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

Mrs. Mitchell," Henna greets, her voice three sizes smaller than a minute ago.

But old habits die slow deaths.

Tenía ese aire un tanto torpe de los niños que todavía no se han acostumbrado a manejarse con la estatura de un hombre.

How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.

Modest expectations will also mean that you can avoid false-hope syndrome, whereby we stick with crazy expectations way past the point at which we should have reined them in.

A plan without room for change is a recipe for frustration.

While many parents worry about the effect of divorce on children, Janet R. Johnston, Ph.D., executive director of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition, said in our interview that studies consistently find that children's exposure to unresolved conflict and verbal and physical abuse is a better predictor of children's adjustment than the marital status of their parents.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had.

His departure had been months and months in coming, and still I wasn't nearly ready.