To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad. Tori Amos More Quotes by Tori Amos More Quotes From Tori Amos Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. Tori Amos suicidemotivationalinspirational Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. Tori Amos couragemotivationalinspirational Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. Tori Amos inspirationallifepeople We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day. Tori Amos each-daydream It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer. Tori Amos survivorvoicefaces People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself. Tori Amos nutspeoplethinking I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing. Tori Amos runningideasthinking So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus. Tori Amos musicjesus The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose. Tori Amos trickylossstuff Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all. Tori Amos fightinglovewar There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. Tori Amos creativitycreativetrying I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge. Tori Amos partyeyemean I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. Tori Amos soulmonstersthinking You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay. Tori Amos justifypissed-offokay I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. Tori Amos naughtygirldirty You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird. Tori Amos cagesgirlbird Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself. Tori Amos winebeautifulbeach If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning. Tori Amos mermaiddrowningifs Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. Tori Amos our-generationdoereality I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness. Tori Amos gratefulsongtwo
