Alicia Keys Quotes

Everyone is always making transitions in life.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Sometimes we need to lose our way.... to find our way

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

Life is a work in progress.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

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.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

My life has been about big changes.

Life is a re-discovery.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.