34 quotes found
Actress · American · 1945
American actress (born 1945)
“How long can you be cute?”
“I try to stay positive and be very, very active.”
“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?”
“I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”
“I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”
“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 i...”
“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 freed...”
“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...”
“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 s...”
“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 rea...”
“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 ...”
“One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.”
“A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's 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, 'Don't you feel...”
“I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think is important.”
“The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.”
“If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain.”
“A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.”
“I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.”
“I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.”
“What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'”