Quotes by Goldie Hawn

“I did not grow up with a sliver spoon in my mouth,”

“You had a whole lifes design, what motivated you when the negativity surrounded you?”

“A Lotus Grows in the Mud.”

“I got a heart tattooed on my foot. Its my first tattoo.”

“Count your smiles instead of your tears; Count your courage instead of your fears.”

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

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

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.

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way theyre 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.

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.

So, you know that feeling just before youre gonna laugh? That thing when you get all bubbled up and theres this beautiful sort of... its like a bubble of laughter but it hasnt come out yet? I said, thats the feeling I would say that... thats what God feel like. Its a feeling of joy and love and well-being.

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 wont be able to live with yourself for the rest of your life. There is only one person who matters at that point and thats 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.

How long can you be cute?

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

People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because its the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and its fun, and its positive, and its a healer. Laughter is Gods gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.

Whether youre successful or not, youll 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 youre really just setting yourself up for failure.

One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.

A lasting relationship isnt about marriage. Its about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.

What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, Dont you feel bad because youre sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde? And I totally surprised myself. I said, Liberation can also come from the inside.