Goldie Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

the smile you give is the smile you get back.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Marriage is ridiculous.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

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

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.

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.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

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

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