Shakira Quotes

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

I've grown not only as an actor but as a young woman. I find myself to be more confident and being more open about self-love. I'm still learning how to take up space and speak out when needed, but that's a new thing for me and I'm loving it.

For people who have been following me for a long time, I really hope that they can get to know me a little better, maybe get to know the softer, squishy, emotional side of me, because I usually put up a weird side, so it'll be cool to be able to open up in that way to them.

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

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

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

I want to reclaim who I am.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, 'Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven't shown yet.' And I started kind of playing around with that side of things.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.