Adjustment Quotes

“A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.”
― Will Cuppy

“I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.”
― Anne Nesbet, The Cabinet of Earths

“Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.”
― Ashok Kallarakkal

“Now she knows that in the intervening years Connell has been growing slowly more adjusted to the world, a process of adjustment that has been steady if sometimes painful, while she herself has been degenerating, moving further and further from wholesomeness, becoming something unrecognisably debased, and they have nothing left in common at all.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.”
― David Dellinger, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays

“Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The well-adjusted person is thus one who conceals his violent impulses and condones the collective’s concealment of them. The “maladjusted” individual cannot tolerate this concealment. “Mental illness” and rebellion, like the sacrificial crisis they resemble, commit the individual to falsehoods and to forms of violence that are certainly more damaging to him than the disguised violence channeled through sacrificial rites, but that bring him closer to the heart of the enigma. Many psychic catastrophes misunderstood by the psychoanalyst result from an inchoate, obstinate reaction against the violence and falsehood found in any human society.”
― René Girard, Violence and the Sacred

“When it is becomes impossible to go back to normal ,we have to create a new normal and adjust to it.”
― Sabine Shah

“There was no addition or subtraction in life that did not require some time for adjustment.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“Remain flexible and teachable so that you can make necessary adjustments in life. Mz Liz”
― Mz Liz

“If we clash with someone, it is our own weakness.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Avoid Clashes!

“Fear is just excitement in need of an attitude adjustment.”
― Aabid Ahmed

“Adjustment that floats on waters of tolerance,
That shakes endurance with sensible stick
Above highs of pride in lagoons around
Below oceanic trench of egoistic self-structure
Lie small pond with diversity of colorful flora
That swallows pebbles, even lineage of rocks
Pebbles of stench talks, rocks of stinky taunts”
― Zakir Malik, The Wail Of The Woods

“As long as someone gets hurt in the slightest, on your account; its effect will fall upon you. So beware. If the other person keeps “disadjusting” and you keep “adjusting”, then you will cross this worldly life. “Fault is of the sufferer” – if one is able to understand only this much, then not a single clash will remain in the home.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Leaders need to know how the system works to be able to make effective decisions about changing the system or adjusting its operations.”
― Chris Hutchinson, Ripple: A Field Manual for Leadership that Works

“Čovjek bi trebao biti uistinu vrlo tolerantan, a s godinama takav zasigurno ne postaje, pa da s ulaskom u vezu ne zahtijeva bar minimum tog banalnog podudaranja, kao što je partnerovo prilagođavanje vlastitim navikama.”
― Stanka Gjurić, Otpovijed 2

“No matter how devastating a weapon or a tool might be, the moment you use it, somebody starts working on a way to nullify that advantage.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Gathering Elements

“The phrase ‘adjust everywhere’ will take your worldly life to the top. One has not gone to moksha (Ultimate Liberation) without going to the top in the worldly interactions. Worldly interactions will not let go of you, what would you do if it keeps entangling you? Hence settle the worldly interactions as soon as possible.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Adjust Everywhere

“There is no problem if one does not know anything about the worldly life, but he should know how to ‘adjust’. Others do keep being ‘disadjust’ & we keep on being ‘adjust’, one will successfully go through worldly life.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Adjust Everywhere

“If one is put into trouble at some place and he makes his ‘adjustment’ then also this worldly life will look beautiful.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Adjust Everywhere

“Our talk must ‘adjust’ to others. If our talk does not adjust to others, then it is our mistake only. It is not mistake in entirely, but there is some mistake of ours. If the mistake is destroyed, one will adjust. Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones) talk is of ‘Everywhere Adjustment’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Adjust Everywhere

“When one does ‘Everywhere Adjust’, one is said to have completely attained the talk of the Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Adjust Everywhere

“To remain in ‘view point’, to adjust to the ‘view point’ (of others) and to remain in the center; it is a great thing.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Life Without Conflict

“Where does the problem arise in adjusting? ‘She is the one I married, she is my wife’. Hey! but she is not a ‘wife’. When he is not a ‘husband’, how can there be a wife then?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Life Without Conflict

“When the intents of like and dislike arise in sensual pleasures (of 5 senses), keeping tolerance in it, (and) to not put blame on any one is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Fear is just excitement in need of an attitude adjustment".”
― Aabid Ahmed

“Your relationship may be new or old but without adjustment you cannot pass a day without argument.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Sacrifice, compromise, adjust, or surrender. Do whatever it needs to be done to make your health a priority.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“I guess boredom is the new mother of invention.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“During the days that followed, between the bouts of pain, he began to come to terms with the idea of living as a cripple. At first he dwelt morbidly on all the active pursuits which he would lose, but by and by he began to look forward to the simple pleasures he would still be able to enjoy.”
― David Howarth, We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance