Dervla Kirwan Quotes

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

Now I don't look at life where I'd say, 'Oh gosh, my life's over if I don't have films anymore.' My approach is that there's so much more for me to do.

I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.

There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.

I think it's important to try to find the positives. Then, look at the things that you don't like and see if you can change them or not.

I used to think, 'Everything's okay, or will be. I'll go on with this stance.' But after the World Cup, I was open to everything: if someone suggested a change in my technique I felt could work for me, I was willing to give it a try.

Life is about seasons, and I think you got to know the seasons.

Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.

I think 2020 can still be my time.

Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.

I think we have to be positive and think about what we can do now because the past is the past - we cannot change it.

It's a funny thing, life... as much as you don't want the sun to come up, it comes up the next day. Life continues on and you have to make a choice in how you handle it.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

If your dream dies, dream another one. If things don't work out the way you've planned, God has a better plan for you.

It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

If I can get better, why not?