Carrie Fisher Quotes

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

I don't have any expectations.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

I care about my future, of course, but whatever happens, happens.

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

I never changed anything, except my socks and my underwear. And I never did anything to glorify myself or improve my lot. I took what came and did the best I could with it.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

To take the world as one finds it

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.