Alan Ball Quotes

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

I learn by going where I have to go.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

You go through pain. You feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable until you change. I acquired a different outlook.

I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

If you don't get challenged, then you can't find out how good you are.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

You never know how much you can grow.

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

Leap and grow your wings on the way down

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.

I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.