If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.

The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's a reason for so much tragedy.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.