Shura Quotes

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one's nature than to live following somebody's else's nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one's nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

Writing is about bringing something from inside you that you're trying to say, and not just trying to say something to please someone else.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.