I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

I think beauty is not just about what we put on our heads or on our faces or what we wear: it's deeper than that, and if we can celebrate that, celebrate the women, not just the superficiality... I think it would be really gorgeous.

Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.

Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.

It's sometimes tiring to get off a long-haul flight and go straight to the studio for a shoot, but if you really plan everything well, you can get so much out of combining travel with work.

The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.

We survived on natural resources, so we should take care of the earth. When I leave home, I do things like switching off the heat and lights.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

World history is a court of judgment.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

After I finished my degree in Mass Communication in Manipal, I enrolled for a cinematography course in Pune Film Institute. That is when Nandini Reddy, the director of 'Ala Modalaindi,' convinced me to act.

I am not very fond of spotlight or even, for that matter, money. I appreciate the small things that give me joy. The most precious forms of happiness often come from things that money cannot buy.

'180' is a romantic film, but I don't think it can be classified as a fluffy love story. It is a wonderful story with a script that is layered and more complex than the normal ones.

The second you become an actress, people take the licence to make many assumptions about you. You're in trouble if you interact with a director/actor. You're in even more trouble if you don't. When I started out, a single YouTube comment would make me sad for days, and I'd wonder how people could say such nasty things about me.

At one point, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer. I also love to travel, so maybe I'd do travel writing.

Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you're being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you're putting positive energy into the world, and you're appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it'll work out.

My label, my genre, my everything is happy sad - I do a smiley face with eyes on both sides. So basically to me, it's totally okay to be happy and sad at the same time, it's totally okay just to be sad, it's totally okay to be happy.

Today's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life.

One of the biggest things growing up that my dad taught me is that if I was okay to talk about my feelings and express how I felt and not get angry, then he would listen to me. If I had issues, I would just tell him, 'Here's how I feel, this is what I'm feeling,' either with him or with my mom.

Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.