Goldie Hawn Quotes & Sayings

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

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud
the obstacles of life and its suffering ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. — Goldie Hawn

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

I've been practicing Buddhism for a while. So, I call myself a Jew-Bu, because my tribe is still Jew. But my philosophy and my practice is really Buddhist. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

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. — Goldie Hawn

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

You know that feeling just before you're going to laugh? That thing where you get all bubbled up? ... It's like a bubble of laughter, but it hasn't come out yet ... ?
That's what God feels like.
It's a feeling of joy and love and well-being. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

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

What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that 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

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

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

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

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

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

life is a dance with the cosmos. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

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. — Goldie Hawn

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. — Goldie Hawn

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

Marriage is ridiculous. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

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

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy. — Goldie Hawn

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle. — Goldie Hawn

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

Every day you can ask yourself, Have I helped my children understand their gifts and talents? Did I empathize with their feelings enough? Is there something I can do or say now to help strengthen our connection? — Goldie Hawn

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble. — Goldie Hawn

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it. — Goldie Hawn

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

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. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation. — Goldie Hawn

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. — Goldie Hawn

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

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know. — Goldie Hawn

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. — Goldie Hawn

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

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas. — Goldie Hawn

Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it, — Goldie Hawn

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

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be. — Goldie Hawn

Wonder shows in the light of our eyes. Without it, they become dull and old. — Goldie Hawn

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. — Goldie Hawn

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. — Goldie Hawn

Knowing your limits, and that there is a limit to getting what you want, comes from a sense of self-respect instilled in you from an early age. It takes guts to stand up in the face of what you really want, but you have to know in your heart that if you make the wrong choice you won't be able to live with yourself for the rest of your life. There is only one person who matters at that point and that's YOU. If you give in to such pressures, you strip away your self-respect, your personal ethics and your standards - the very things that create the fiber that will hold you together for the rest of your life. — Goldie Hawn

I love making people laugh and by the way I still do that with the charitable efforts on my part because I believe that people need to laugh. — Goldie Hawn

I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry. — Goldie Hawn

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

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. — Goldie Hawn

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

My mother loved the Bible. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

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

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. — Goldie Hawn

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

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse. — Goldie Hawn

Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it. — Goldie Hawn

the smile you give is the smile you get back. — Goldie Hawn

To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

All I ever wanted to be was happy. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I've studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that everyone's praying to the same God. — Goldie Hawn

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships. — Goldie Hawn

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

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal. — Goldie Hawn

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

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

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

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

It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions. — Goldie Hawn

Your fate is often on the road you take to avoid it. — Goldie Hawn

I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain. — Goldie Hawn

Mindful awareness is simply paying attention to what is happening now. In doing nothing other than living in the moment for a few minutes, we can let thoughts and feelings come and go without holding on to them or judging them. — Goldie Hawn