Goldie Hawn

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

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

“All I ever wanted to be was happy.”

“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 lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.”

“Getting older is a fact of life.”

“I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state.”

“When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?'”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you get to a certain age, you have to make a decision for yourself: if you want to get old in the industry, and you want to play maybe a few parts that come along now and then - or what else in life interests you?”

“I try to stay positive and be very, very active.”

“So, you know that feeling just before you're gonna laugh? That thing when you get all bubbled up and there's this beautiful sort of... it's like a bubble of laughter but it hasn't come out yet? I said, that's the feeling I would say that... that's what God feel like. It's a feeling of joy and love and well-being.”

“We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action.”

“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.”

“Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.”

“I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.”

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

“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.”

“In relationships, particularly love relationships, people are impatient.”