Damien Rice Quotes

You learn to accept your own reality.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I truly don't believe in regret.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that's just because I'm a Scorpio. Now I'm more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.

There have been scenes and sequences I've done that I watch back now and cringe and think I dealt with that in completely the wrong way. Sometimes I'm too emotional - too invested, in that sense - but you learn, and then you don't do it again.

I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.

I have come to terms with all the complications of my life.

Some people should have more levels of maturity than others, but you know to have a show that's grounded, tethered to reality, if you follow a group of people for six years and you show no maturity, I think that would be inaccurate.

If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when you accept what is real can you live with it in peace and happiness. The alternative is a struggle that will never end because it is a struggle with the unreal, with a mirage of life instead of life itself.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.