Laini Taylor Quotes

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting." I wasn't sure what answer I'd expected. But this wasn't it. For a second, I just sat there, letting it sink in. "You know," I said finally, "saying stuff like that would make girls even crazier for you. Now you're cuteand somewhat more attainable. If you were appealing before, now you're off the charts.

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

I've never been no superficial cat.

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

I hope people will find sincerity and authenticity in my music.

I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

Along with the good qualities, if someone isn't vulnerable I can't be around them to a certain extent. And I don't mean vulnerable to me or vulnerable to me in a sexual way. I just mean vulnerable, period.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

Remember who you really are and be that.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.