Ali Smith Quotes

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

All my characters exist in risk, in the places we are either too afraid to go to, or have enough privilege not to have to, but whatever the reason, these characters I fashion go before us and come back transformed for us. For me, at least.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

I can change, I can grow.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.