Psychological Adjustment Quotes

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision. It is not enough to change the name of the armed forces. It is necessary to change the minds of those people who only yesterday wore a military uniform.

We have changed our environment more quickly than we have learned how to change ourselves.

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.

The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?