Quotes About Adjustment

He has gone and we are missing him ! When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an empty, gnawing sort of sensation.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Marta's death changed everything, of course. It changed everything.

Her father had been forced to cancel her clarinet lessons after the neighbors complained about the practicing.

If it hurts so much that you have to bubble-wrap your body, maybe you should play something different.

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

Problems are often life's way of letting you know that you're off course and need to take corrective action.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

But you get used to anything.

We will never like this reality or make it okay, but eventually we accept it.

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.

I climbed the stairs to my apartment, lay down in my new bed and turned off the light. I waited to start crying or worrying

The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it. Someone makes a promise, and then they break it. A play gets good notices, and then it folds. A marriage looks strong, and then they divorce. For a while there's no war, and then there's another war. If you get too upset about it all, you become a stupid, unhappy person—and where's the good in that?

These adaptations did not

If we do not alter with the times, the times yet alter us. We may stand perfectly still, but our surroundings shift round and we are not in the same relationship to them for long; just as a chameleon, matching perfectly the greenness of a leaf, should know that the leaf will one day fade.

a little here, bends a little there. And far too often

And yet they had adjusted with surprisingly little trouble to their new life, and most of them were quite sincerely happy. The adaptability of the human creature is such that they actually had to remind themselves on occasion of their desperate circumstances.

The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas . . . and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.

You can't stop change, the man says. It comes of necessity. You have to go with it and make something of what it makes of you.

Not whole thing works as configured. Not everyone acts as trained.

She starts to get used to being sacrificed