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
Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of resolving unfinished business with parents while they are still alive, as parental love is irreplaceable.
Goldie Hawn highlights the transient nature of parental relationships and the emotional impact of unresolved issues between children and their parents. She suggests that love is fundamental in family dynamics and that feelings of rejection from parents can create lasting emotional scars that cannot be healed by others. Thus, it encourages individuals to confront and mend these relationships while there is still time.
Themes
FamilyLoveRelationshipsParenthoodUnfinished Business
In practice
Example use cases
In a family counseling session, a therapist might use this quote to encourage clients to address unresolved issues with their parents.
More from Goldie Hawn
All quotes →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.
Goldie HawnRead
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.
Goldie HawnRead
Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.
Goldie HawnRead
We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.
Goldie HawnRead
It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?
Goldie HawnRead
Similar quotes
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.
Rob ReinerRead
I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.
Ayaan Hirsi AliRead
The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
Jane FondaRead
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
Washington IrvingRead
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.
Marilynne RobinsonRead
We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.
Benjamin SpockRead