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“I just love good smells.”
“To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Meditation helps people balance and calibrate their left-right brain.”
“Listening is huge. Learn to listen. And it's hard: relationships are not easy; most of them don't last. I mean, when you look at what's really going on. So every day is a choice, and sense of freedom is important.”
“Women, by nature, are a certain way; they think a certain way. Women are web thinkers. We think wide... Why? Because we have children. Why? Because we were born as women to have children and to be able to take care of them. We do so many things at once.”
“I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.”
“People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.”
“A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.”
“I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.”
“By living mindfully, you understand that there are many transitions in life. You just go through them.”
“Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.”
“I would have been long divorced if I got married.”
“A woman opening a movie with no other star is like a miracle.”
“A fearful child cannot learn.”
“We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.”
“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.”
“A child's giggle tickles me deeply, and it breaks my heart when that begins to disappear. So I do what I can to create opportunities for children to continue to laugh and rediscover their joy.”
“My mother was the kind of person who was very much part of her tribe and very much a satellite of her tribe. She was the girl who left her family at the age of 17 and went to Washington. My mother was orphaned at three and then was brought up by my aunt Goldie. So, yes she belonged, but there was a part of her that didn't.”