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26 Empowering Carrie Fisher Quotes To Remind You To Never Apologize For Living Loudly

Thank you, Carrie Fisher. 
Kendra Syrdal
December 27, 2016
“Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
— Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
Tagged: resentment, Hatred
“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
— Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
Tagged: Heaven, Hell
“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”
— Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
Tagged: Being Crazy, Sanity
“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”
— Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic
Tagged: Hate, Love, Loving Loudly, Big Love
“If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”
— Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
Tagged: Funny, Choosing Happiness, Laughter, Life
“Youth and beauty are not accomplishments, they’re the temporary happy.”
— Carrie Fisher, Twitter
Tagged: Body Positivity, body confidence, beauty, Loving Yourself
“Instant gratification takes too long.”
— Carrie Fisher, Postcards From The Edge
Tagged: humor, Instant Gratification, Waiting, Patience
“Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren’t so challenging.”
— Carrie Fisher, 20 Questions for Carrie Fisher
Tagged: Hard Times, Challenging Times
“What I've learned over a lifetime is that love is an action.”
— Carrie Fisher, 20 Questions for Carrie Fisher
Tagged: Love, Life, How To Love
“I take care of myself best as I can. I do the best imitation of maturity I can possibly muster.”
— Carrie Fisher, 20 Questions for Carrie Fisher
Tagged: Self-Care, maturity, humor
“We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane.”
— Carrie Fisher, Good Housekeeping
Tagged: beauty, Self-Love, Beauty Standards
“The only exercise I get lately is running off at the mouth & jumping to conclusions...”
— Carrie Fisher, Twitter
Tagged: Exercise, humor
“Once it was proposed to me that it was all right to be like I am, I finally quit apologizing for it.”
— Carrie Fisher, Rolling Stone
Tagged: Being Yourself, Unapologetically You, Personality, Loving Yourself
“Strength is a style. But this happens in acting a lot. If you pretend something over and over, sometimes it comes true.”
— Carrie Fisher, Rolling Stone
Tagged: strength, Inner Strength
“You’re only as sick as your secrets. If it is a secret—anything that makes you sort of shame-based—if you can claim it, it has a lot of less power over you.”
— Carrie Fisher, Palm Beach Illustrated
Tagged: Secrets, empowerment, Shame, Self-awareness
“I think in my mouth, so I don't lie.”
— Carrie Fisher, Good Morning America
Tagged: humor, No Filter, lying, Honesty
“I am very powerful about my weaknesses.”
— Carrie Fisher, Charlie Rose
Tagged: empowerment, Weakness, Self-awareness
“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”
— Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
Tagged: Life, Ups and Downs, Good Times, Bad Times
“The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.”
— Carrie Fisher, Esquire
Tagged: Self-awareness, Honesty, Transparency
“Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.”
— Carrie Fisher, Esquire
Tagged: Negotiation, life advice, Success
“There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap'.”
— Carrie Fisher, IMDB
Tagged: Success, Ambition, Honesty
“I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”
— Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist
Tagged: Happiness, Making People Happy, Joy, Personality
“There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.”
— Carrie Fisher, Twitter
Tagged: humor, Self-Possessed, Self-Awarenes, Inner Demons
“My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.”
— Carrie Fisher, Postcards From The Edge
Tagged: emotions, Emotional Rollercoaster, Excietment, Feelings
“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”
— Carrie Fisher, Postcards From The Edge
Tagged: hurt, Hurting, Acknowledgment, Pain
“There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.”
— Carrie Fisher, Postcards From The Edge
Tagged: humor, Men