Quotes from Goldie Hawn

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

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.

I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin.

I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!

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

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

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

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.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

the smile you give is the smile you get back.

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

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

life is a dance with the cosmos.

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

When my mother was alive, I was the daughter first and everything else second.... That's what made her death so painful. My mother was a big part of my life and a big reason why I did what I did. I've always derived a lot of energy from being a good daughter.... When she was gone, I suddenly thought, Why am I doing this? For whom? Losing my mom was really hard on me. I remember going to the Academy Awards shortly after she died and thinking, Well I'm all dressed up, and my mother won't see me.

In Sweden they have a very different approach. There, preschool children are encouraged to play and relax without any structured learning for the first six years of their lives. They go for nature walks every day, even in the bitter Scandinavian winter. They are not taught to read until they are seven years of age, yet by the age of ten, Swedish children consistently lead European literacy rankings.

If you don't take responsibility, then you'll never grow. You will never learn. And you will only repeat your mistakes.