Camille Kostek Quotes

When you're able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.

You have to be satiated with just being authentically yourself at the end of the day.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

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

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

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.

The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me.

I want to tell everyone that no matter what's keeping them from being their authentic self to hold on to the hope that there will be an end to that road. There will be a life where they can live their true self.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

However, I've learned in my life that life is about living authentically. And for me, the best moments as I look back in my life, that I became the best versions of Jeannie that I'm proud of, was when I was honest with myself.

When you meet someone who really sees you, it gives you the emotional freedom to pursue your dreams.

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

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.