Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

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.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

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

If I hold back any part of me, I suppress that much energy and potential. The question I want to ask myself now is not what behavior is good or bad, but in what ways would I express myself with greater energy if I didn't hold back.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

People who know me know that I'm the last person on earth that wants to be somebody else.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

It's always important to be yourself.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.