Horton Foote Quotes

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

You have to go through the ups and downs to really be able to root yourself and focus on what's important.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.