A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.

Shailene Woodley

I think the future of food is in insects.

Shailene Woodley

insects thinking

I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.

Shailene Woodley

done people thinking

Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

Shailene Woodley

being-yourself opportunity morning

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

Shailene Woodley

things-in-life self thinking

Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

Shailene Woodley

being-truthful how-you-feel truthful

I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. I could go on for hours. I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.

Shailene Woodley

oil spring thinking

Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.

Shailene Woodley

giving character world

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

Shailene Woodley

guilt worry past

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

Shailene Woodley

labels people

You forget that you do choose your life, and there are so many things to be grateful for. I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better, and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.

Shailene Woodley

next grateful sight

My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.

Shailene Woodley

tree men believe

I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

Shailene Woodley

hummingbirds now-and-then

Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.

Shailene Woodley

stay-positive grateful body

I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are.

Shailene Woodley

falling-in-love humans sex

As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.

Shailene Woodley

teenager struggle people

The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop, is the day that I'm gonna quit because I could care less about the magazines or being famous or the money or the awards.

Shailene Woodley

butterfly awards passion

I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.

Shailene Woodley

sexy dresses long

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

Shailene Woodley

want

I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

Shailene Woodley

strong love-you thinking

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

Shailene Woodley

hate world thinking