Sinead O'Connor Quotes

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.

You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

One must lose one's life to find it.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Physically, it completely changed me. I found strength that I never thought I had. And mentally, I mean, it's taught me just patience and letting go, and it's really changed my whole psychological outlook, I think.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.