Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.

I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

Be what it is that you are seeking.

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.