Oneself Quotes

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Lie one more time and imma quit sparing you.

One of the things that happened is I did a lot of shitty gigs. When you do a bunch of shitty bar gigs you have to get used to people yelling at you, you’re used to thinking on the fly, to dealing with weird situations.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.