Goldie Hawn Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

My mother loved the Bible.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Marriage is ridiculous.

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

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

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.

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

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