Mia Farrow Quotes

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

You've got to laugh at life, you can't take it all too seriously.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.