Kim Young-ha Quotes

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.