Alesha Dixon Quotes

I'm 19. I'm in the process of growing up and figuring out where I'm supposed to be in my life. But it is kind of weird when I realize that other people look to me as inspiration.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and painfully immature.

As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

For me, my life is a journey.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.