Alicia Keys Quotes

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.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

I hadn't traveled with the intention of learning about anything except myself. And the real point of all this travel was not what I had come to believe or disbelieve about the wider world, but what I had learned about myself.

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I change every day. I'm still changing.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

If you do not go within, you without

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.