My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

— Emily Murdoch

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith.

— Paul Goodman

Pain avoidance is part of life. A campaign to minimize hunger and lessen pain drives us to develop systems that will provide us with nourishing food and protective shelter. Pain is a trickster. It can send us true or false signals that confine us to our beds or spur us to roam long and far. Pain has a lifesaving function. Pain can signal us to implement evasive action or attack our problems head-on. Pain has a putative role. Pain can torture us for engaging in careless deeds. Pain performs a restorative role. Pain can tell us when we must rest. Pain is tutor and a healer. Pain implores us to take heed of our physical and mental infirmities, urges us to call out for help, and compels us to adopt modified strategies.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

— Abraham H. Maslow

Relationships & personal Interactions are like having food...if it doesn't taste well, we can't eat it, no matter how beautiful it looks ~

— Rajneesh Shrma

Shut’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

That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn’t allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do ‘everywhere adjustment’.

— Dada Bhagwan

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

— Henry Miller

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 T. Dellinger

Waiting for anyone is a cause for a terrible life ahead. When the electricity is gone, and you wait for it, that is considered as Arcadian (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment.

— Dada Bhagwan