Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy.

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

So, the important thing for us to remember, when we're searching for right livelihood, is to stop looking for something to do, and start looking for something to be. And to get in touch with that part that resides deep inside of you that knows who you really are. And see what it would take to call that forth in a BEINGNESS way.

You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.

Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she leaps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

I'm dead sober. This is just me.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.