#adjustment

Shuki’s wisdom: "Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway. ↗

— M.A. McRae

#adjustment #life

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#adjustment #change #climate #climate change #cost

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#adjustment #after #case #close #couple

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#crisis #every #new #self-esteem

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#adjustment #big #big leagues #get #got

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#back #been #challenge #civilian #combat

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#been #critical #film #i #me

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

#autism #fitting-in #respect

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#adjustment #beauty #cannot #change #harmony

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#adjustment #difficult #failure #harmonize #important