Goldie hawn quotes

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

Because I like that I got an ugly girl's personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle. And I did. But the good news is that I never considered myself beautiful at all. And I still don't.

I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.

When you look at the amount of medication that has been administered to children today, it stands the hair up on your arms. Because this is the way that they are helping children manage their emotions.

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

I believe you have to start with a craft; you don't just start with a dream. You've got to put a lot of work in. If you want to pursue acting, then you go to acting class. If you want to be a dancer, then you learn to dance, which is what I did.

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

Marriage is ridiculous.

You don't have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don't hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember.

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

the smile you give is the smile you get back.

So each time you do a shift in your life, right, or you do a change in your life, then sometimes it feels like it's not gonna happen. And your career is not gonna do well. And the next thing you know is that these choices that you make actually catapult you to the next level.

A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace.

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.

Liberation is an interesting word, because you can be liberated from external things, and also from your internal dialogue.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

Men, they come and go. They always will. Hopefully, they stay. But, it’s the girl that’s sitting next to you, or the girl that’s sitting across from you, that’s going to get you through everything.

When you're young, you start looking at what you want to do - not just who you want to be, but what you want to do. And I think the tenacity to say, "I'm going to perfect that," is the beginning of a work ethic. It's the beginning of a talent.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

I'll have a lot of wrinkles on my face, but I feel like my heart will be fat and full.

I really think that to a lot of people hair is everything. Bad hair takes over everything, it really does. I think if somebody has bad hair it doesn't matter what else is happening.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

I think what we can do is to develop this incredible computer that we have on our heads, because it's endless. It's just the most brilliant thing we have to develop, and know that we have the power over all of it.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.

I believe that life is about doing. It's about changing. It's about transitioning. I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

My mother loved the Bible.

When 9/11 happened, the world, certainly in the United States of America, there was a unity. There was this sense of unity. And I have to say just from a personal level, it really felt good. We all felt the same way.

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.