What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
ALICIA KEYSI think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it’s hard to hear sometimes, because it’s a noisy world and there’s a lot of people talking to you.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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You’ve got to love what’s yours.
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From the beginning, I’ve had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say – and I’ve learnt that they’re meaningless, and they’re mostly inaccurate. So I don’t worry about it, because there’s nothin’ for me to deal with.
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I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.
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It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.
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Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned…another lesson learned.
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I don’t have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don’t have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it’s not going to drive you.
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How you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.
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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
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It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
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No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.
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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it’s really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
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I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.
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I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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I’ve always expressed myself best through writing. I’ve gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.
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I’m a very caring person.
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Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
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