Marsha Norman Quotes

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

We can always begin again.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

Better to face the bear than run from it.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

We can always begin again.

Survival, I know, is to begin again.

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

If I stay in action, I won't live in fear.