Alice Hoffman Quotes

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

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.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

I'm figuring it out as I go, I'm good at that.

Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

Nothing we can't handle, break it up and dismantle.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.