Bette Midler Quotes

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'

When you allow yourself to really think about the future and the legacy you're leaving, you become gentler.

Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about all of the things you want to leave behind. Remember, the good thing about doing this today is that you still have time to rewrite your life's content if necessary.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?