You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.
Goldie HawnRead
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
Interpretation
Life is fleeting and inevitable; it's essential to make the most of our time.
Goldie Hawn's quote reflects on the inevitability of aging and death, emphasizing that life does not allow for regression but presents us with a crucial question: how we will choose to spend our limited time on Earth. It serves as a prompt to reflect on our actions and priorities, urging us to engage meaningfully in the present rather than dwell on the past.
In practice
In a motivational speech about making the most of our lives.
You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.
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.
I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.
Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.
We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.
It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Lifeβs a voyage thatβs homeward bound.
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
So here's to the girls on the go_x000D_ Everybody tries._x000D_ Look into their eyes,_x000D_ And you'll see what they know:_x000D_ Everybody dies._x000D_ A toast to that invincible bunch,_x000D_ The dinosaurs surviving the crunch._x000D_ Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch_x000D_ Everybody rise!
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