Quotes About Adjustment

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

Cut my coat after my cloth.

Our only security is our ability to change.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Two decians later, we didn't have any answers, but we'd kind of gotten used to having the not-a-parasite around. And we were still calling it the not-a-parasite, even though it had proven pretty useful.

You get so used to hurting that when it goes away not being in pain doesn't even feel normal, exactly.

It is queer to be in a place when someone has gone. It is not two other places, the place that they were there in, and the place that was there before they came. I can't get used to this third place or to staying behind.

There can occur in lives a subsidence under the soil, so that, without the surface having been visibly broken, gradients alter, uprights cant a little out of the straight.

it would be all right. Not the same, not unchanged, but all right

She never knew from one moment to the next how he was going to behave toward her and therefore she constantly had to adjust her balance. It was exhausting.

Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.

joined them later understood the arrangement, and fitted

When you use thoughtful, gentle methods and are patient about the switch, this can be a peaceful time of transition for all of you.

The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.

You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.

But never mind, Olive thinks now. You move aside and make way for the new.

The trees off to the side have been cut down to make a parking lot. You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.

But I do know you need to clear out the old to make way for the new. See, isn't that a wise saying? Won't I make a good and clever king? I'm fit for the role.

He llegado a esa dura etapa de la vida, que es el repliegue.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don't be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it's never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

The problem tended to be couched primarily in terms of 'helping the immigrant to adjust to the host society', despite the fact that sections of the 'host society' were acting in rather an un-host-like fashion towards the new arrivals

You have to deal with the world as it is and not as you want it to be

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.