Quotes About Adjustment

The God-image, the self-image, and the world-image are deeply connected. Normally, when one of them changes, the other two have to readjust. So, when our God-image changes, then we have to change. When our world-image is adjusted, we are confused or even depressed for a while.

Squealing, Ashley threw her arms around Miranda, while Gage ducked swiftly out of the way. "You'll get used to her, Miranda," Parker sighed, pulling Ashley back.

Demagnetizing is a fact of life.

I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake.

bluestocking, Nancy. Married life has quite changed something

But it's better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.

reassigned to Zhenjiang

What I'm saying is that we were all of us struggling to adjust to our new life, and I suppose we all did things back then we later regretted. I was really upset by Ruth's remark at the time, but it's pointless now trying to judge her or anyone else for the way they behaved during those early days at the Cottages.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned to walk again. He felt like that, as if part of him had been amputated, and he could not get used to the idea that it was gone forever.

there would never be time for him and Sunni to grow accustomed to each other, to fall into routines, to take each other for granted;

The same old rain, and, if not welcomed, at least accepted—an old gray aunt who came to visit every winter and stayed till spring. You learn to live with her. You learn to reconcile yourself to the little inconveniences and not get annoyed. You remember she is seldom angry or vicious and nothing to get in a stew about, and if she is a bore and stays overlong you can train yourself not to notice her, or at least not to stew about her. Which

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.

More changes occur in the first month after birth than at any other time in a woman's life. It's no wonder that 50–75 percent of all mothers feel some degree of baby blues (the incidence would be 100 percent if males gave birth and fed babies).

The chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promisecrammed; you cannot feed capons so.

No Ocidente estamos todos mal habituados. É uma das coisas boas que tem vir para a Índia, temos de enfrentar tantas coisas horríveis que desenvolvemos uma certa imunidade em relação a elas.

I couldn't recall ever having felt lonely before. It was a weird sensation – for the moment a bit exciting, but I could tell that once I got used to it, it would be awful.

Whether or not you get what you're looknig for depends entirely on one things and one thing only. It depends on your willingness to do something different.

It was the same feeling I had when I first got to Britain. How many times could one restart a life? "I read that in China, people will transplant large number of trees and bring them to the newly developed cities. Chinese people seem to be very adaptable, like the trees." You were trying to comfort me. "Yes, but once the trees grew older, you can't transplant them again. The roots are too embedded into the ground.

she had married Vince because he seemed solid, religious and faithful, unlike her father. She believed, as he did, in the sacredness and lifelong commitment of marriage. She told herself that she would have to adjust.