I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

I hate to be smart.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I like pushing boundaries.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Love is a state of being.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.