Shakti Gawain Quotes

We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.

I'm not on the stage going, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!' I accept my vulnerability, don't pretend I'm something I'm not. I don't want to come across as fake.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

I think a lot of pain in people's lives comes from not being open and honest about what they really think, what they really feel, what they like, what they don't like.

What I say is how I feel.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

The body never lies.

I never do anything that doesn't feel natural to me. I wake up in the morning and I know what to put on - it's my sixth sense, really.

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less.

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking. Only you know and once you live in truth, your heart is completely free.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

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.