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
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.
Interpretation
Youthfulness comes from maintaining a sense of wonder in life, regardless of age.
Goldie Hawn's quote emphasizes that true youthfulness is less about age and more about one's perspective towards life. When individuals approach the world with curiosity and a fresh outlook, they embody the spirit of youth, suggesting that our mindset can shape how we experience life, regardless of how many years we have lived.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing life, one might quote this to encourage a positive outlook.
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?
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.
Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
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