Not only was ‘The Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ star one of the greatest female screen legends, best dressed starlets and a member of everyone’s ‘Most Beautiful’ list, but she also devoted many years of her life to humanitarian causes, helping impoverished children in poor nations. More than just a pretty face, Hepburn held a uniquely positive look on life right up until her untimely death in 1993.
1. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
2. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’
3. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
4. “A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to reach their full potential.”
5. I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented in, because it is very true.”
6. “The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.”
7. “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
8. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
9. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
10. “Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.”
11. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never thrown anyone out.”
12. “Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
13. “You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him.”
14. “Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.”
15. “I believe in being strong when everything else seems to be going wrong.”
16. “Happy girls are the prettiest girls.”
17. “Paris is always a good idea.”
18. “Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.”
19. “If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhileness I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”
20. “Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it all in at once.”
21. “Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.”
22. “I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously.”
23. “True friends are families which you can select.”
24. “Walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
25. “Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.
