Tony Kushner Quotes

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.

Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'

I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

Whereas before I was a young, blonde girl who would do what she was told. I know who I am as a person and I'm getting damn strong.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.