Quotes About Settling

And what about you? he asks Anton. What's happened since we last met? Oh, it's been good. What did you study? Never got there, actually. Had a few years of wandering around, then I settled down. Married my childhood sweetheart and been running the family famr ever since. Listens to himself with amazement. All of it true, all false.

What's the difference between settling and compromising? When it comes to marriage, what can we live with, and what can we live without? How long does it make sense to hold out for someone better—who we may never find, and who may not exist or be available to us even if he did—when we could be happy with the person right in front of us?

Around it, the elements of a world were settling into place. An odd structure. I looked back to the time when I had first built that set, positioning various ghosts there, most of whom had never taken substance. I found my way back there, the same even today. As before, isolation, sadness, the impossibility of my settling down, of accepting one destiny among so many others I'd have found equally uninviting.

When you settle for just anything, you won't be happy, you just learn to live with it.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

The long soft life is what I feel I'm settling into and the only question is how deadly it will turn out to be. But

The soft life is what I'm settling into and the only question is how deadly it will turn out to be.

Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

And let's be honest, if we weren't ever disappointed, we'd settle for the shallow pleasures of this world rather than addressing the spiritual desperation of our souls.

When you start sleeping somewhere you know will be the last place you'll get to make your home, that's when the future has a certain finality, too.

In one study, when children learned how to cope with frustration during the day, they were observed to settle themselves better at bedtime and later at night when they awoke.

Thich Nhat Hanh, the venerable and highly respected Vietnamese meditation teacher, poet, and peace activist, uses the image of cloudy apple juice settling in a glass to describe meditation. You just sit with whatever is present, even discomfort, anxiety, or confusion, with whatever is present, and the mind settles all by itself.

There's a big difference between settling, and being truly happy. Life is short, never settle for less than you deserve.

But life, gradually revealing to me the permanence of our needs, had taught me that if a person is unobtainable we have to settle for someone else, and I felt that what I had asked of Albertine could have been supplied by another, like Mlle de Stermaria.

The best ideas are like great wines. They improve with age. But they can also go through a dumb period when they need time to settle and sink in.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

I'm tempted to shove one of my romance novels up your ass"- P.J. said sharply "But I love my books too much to desecrate them like that. I'll settle for my boot.

when people settle their accounts, guilt is easy to find, and justice is the right to do whatever we think must be done, and therefore justice can be anything.

You get used to whatever you get.

People shed their dead skin at a rate of forty thousand cells per minute. These dead cells form what we call a 'skin raft,' which floats on the air before settling to the ground, but they don't last long, even under ideal conditions, let alone in this wind.

The hospital, like a beast with a thousand hearts, was stretching and yawning, settling into the night.

Trump would shortly become a Gorsuch fan. But before settling on Gorsuch, he wondered why the job wasn't going to a friend and loyalist. In the Trump view, it was rather a waste to give the job to someone he didn't even know.

I leaned against his side, his irritation oddly comforting. After a moment he grudgingly put his arm around me. The deep quiet was already settling back upon the grove, as if all the fire and rage we'd brought could make only a brief interruption in its peace.