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I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
Goldie Hawn
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There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
Goldie Hawn
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We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy
Goldie Hawn
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We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.
Goldie Hawn
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At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.
Goldie Hawn
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The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Goldie Hawn
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We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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the smile you give is the smile you get back.
Goldie Hawn
20.
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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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
Goldie Hawn
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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
Goldie Hawn
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Marriage is ridiculous.
Goldie Hawn
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I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.
Goldie Hawn
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We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.
Goldie Hawn
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Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.
Goldie Hawn
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So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.
Goldie Hawn
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What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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
Goldie Hawn
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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?
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
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The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.
Goldie Hawn
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The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives
Goldie Hawn
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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.
Goldie Hawn
