I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

We are wiser than we know.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

You should never give up your inner self.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.