Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I’m just a simple country girl.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

We boil at different degrees.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.