Alanis Morissette Quotes, Running Quotes, Emotional Quotes

Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

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It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

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I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

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I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

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We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

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Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

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I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

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There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

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My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

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We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.

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I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

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I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

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And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

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Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

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For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

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Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.

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Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

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