Susan Strasberg Quotes

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

There are certain things in politics you cannot stop. You just can’t stop. You just have to grin and bear it.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

I can't really change Nashville.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

It's good to mind about things but not to give it too much weight, because there are some things you cannot change.

There's just some things you can't change.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.