Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

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

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.