I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Little things affect little minds.

My life is my argument.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.