Quotes about Adjustment

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!

Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.

It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

A man does not recover from such jolts-- he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about.