Alanis Morissette Self Quotations

I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

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

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.