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.
ALICIA KEYSI’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.
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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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Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
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Love me like you’ll never see me again.
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We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.
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I’ve stepped more into my womanhood, I’m a mother now, I’m having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
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Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.
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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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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
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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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Wait, I’m deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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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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Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.
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You can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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