Freya Stark Quotes

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

I strive to live with passion and not to be desensitised to life. Things matter to me. You’ve got to live like that. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s not possible to please everyone and there is no point in trying to be what other people think you should be. For me, it’s important to be who I am, not just to be different but to be as authentic as I can be.

Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.

I don't know if anyone should do anything that's not authentic to them.

I can't be passionate about something or really give myself to something if I don't know it's a hundred percent authentic to who I am.

People need to be true to themselves, and if entertaining and content-creating is something that does not come naturally and is really difficult, they should find something they are passionate about and love and do that instead.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

I do what I do because I love it. I'd never really been into the celebrity side of it, so if I've got nothing to talk about, I'd just rather not be seen at all.