Sounds Like Me Quotes

“You are overwhelmed and haven’t learned to be your own friend through this yet. You will. Your fear of jumping without a net is so valid, and the trick that you haven’t learned yet is that that’s life, always and everywhere. There are no nets. Life is a big, long free fall, and the sooner you can embrace what is beautiful about that, the sooner you will start to enjoy the ride.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“...time did what it always does: softened the hard edges”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“Things evolve into other things. Emotions do the same. Forever. Your best ally in all of these shifting seas is your faith in the fact that you are exactly where you are supposed to be.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“We're always making everything slightly more difficult than it needs to be, aren't we?

Oh, us...”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“The kaleidoscope of experiences you have had this year are deeply meaningful and have enhanced your perspective on what actually matters. You have seen firsthand how fleeting and fragile life is and it has changed your DNA. Your tolerance for bullshit is lessening and although you are not always graceful with how you fight back, I love that you are a scrappy little lady. You are bored with the value system you see celebrated around you. Compromise is sometimes just manipulation and you are learning to identify that. You see a need for more people, women especially, to push back against the system that is in place and you've decided to do more of that. This experience will only turn up the volume on your voice the next time around. Hell yes to this and go go go.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“My request was for courage. To turn and face the thing that scares you the most and do your best to stay there. I asked for honesty, which sometimes requires more strength than most things we do in our lives.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“Things evolve into other things. Emotions do the same. Forever. Your best ally in all of these shifting seas is your faith in the fact that you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Stay put. Stay soft. Stay gentle and kind. Listen to your instincts. Meditate. Pray. Laugh as much as humanly possible. Pain is ok too. Say thank you for all of it. Feel proud that you have spent most of your life's energy on cultivating a strong connection to your own soul and the will of your heart. It is leading you somewhere deeply satisfying, but never perfect.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“I was struck by what kept her in place, her fear of hurting him. It reminded me of my own darkest moments, waking up one day, looking around, and not recognizing your own self, because you have given too much of that away.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“where we learned we could make each other laugh, and sometimes that’s all you need to know about a person to know that being friends is a good idea.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“I hope these essays have been comforting to someone reading it if for no other reason than to watch me openly admit I have no idea what I’m doing. I suspect most people feel that way, even if they don’t fess up.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“My personal best seems the most accessible to me when I am being as honest as I can be. At this point in my life, I am attempting to make choices that move me toward what feels authentic, while saying yes to things that make my gut feel spooked with possibility.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“...we can choose to reflect the places we see the lack of love in the world, or we could try to be stronger than our weaknesses, and shine a light on something better. We were facing down our own personal Goliaths. I wanted to invite her to stand with me and try the radical act of simply staying put. To tell the truth and trust that whatever comes next is going to be okay.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“Good stuff gets worse and bad stuff gets better, so you're better off to spend a little time making friends with all of it.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“The melancholy that cracked open that night would eventually become something I'm deeply fond of, but we never know which monsters under the bed will become our friends, do we?”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“My emotional hangover was thick and thorny and I felt antsy, wanting to crawl out of my own skin. I had hoped I would sleep off those weird, crazy feelings and wake up "normal," but my melancholy was everywhere and I couldn't pretend otherwise.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“We're all stronger than we know, and we're all meant to leave a legacy.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“You don't feel your own power at all right now, and I understand. Yours is not the kind that wants to announce itself. It is slow and quiet and tucks in behind things waiting to be discovered. Some people have power that is thick and neon-colored and races around the room making sure everyone pays attention. It's fascinating but it's not yours. You are learning how to hold yourself up and believe in the strength of your own conviction. That is not an easy thing to do, and you are doing the best you can. Keep going. I'm very proud of you.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“You are learning empathy, and what it feels like to be left out. This is going to make you want to be the kind of person who makes room for people who feel like outsiders, and it's going to serve you well. It's going to guide you toward people who love you for who you are, so hang in there. Trust me that things are moving in the right direction.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“...she has somehow heard your deepest, darkest secrets without even asking. She is blessed with an innate ability to make people feel seen, heard, and safe, meanwhile keeping her own vulnerability tucked just beneath the surface of her own skin. She shares it with only a very select and privileged few.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“Relax. Everyone is going to love you! Just get out of your own way.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“She connects me to my deepest truth and says things I don’t always feel the courage to say in my own life.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“It reminded me of my own darkest moments, waking up one day, looking around, and not recognising your own self, because you have given too much of that away.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“Things evolve into other things. Emotions do the same. Forever. Your best ally in all of these shifting seas is your faith in the fact that you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Stay put. Stay soft. Stay gentle and kind. Listen to your instincts. Meditate. Pray. Laugh as much as humanly possible. Pain is okay too. Say thank you for all of it. Feel proud that you have spent most of your life's energy on cultivating a strong connection to your own soul and the will of your heart. It is leading you somewhere deeply satisfying but never perfect. Observe what is painful right now and see if you can stay courageous enough to share it wholly and honestly. Invite it into your house and be a good student. You are a patchwork quilt of all these past selves, all these wounded little girls, and they are all here too, listening in some form or another. You have grown into someone I am very proud of, and though I wish I could give you the gift of knowing we won't ever need to have this conversation... that's not really the point, and probably not true.

The work is learning to love whatever it is, so for now let's do that, shall we?

I love you, my beautiful girl, and I hope that's enough.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“You are exactly where you belong, and your tender heart is precious.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“Surrender is a healing sentiment to return to.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“For those of you unfamiliar with barrel racing: a buzzer rings and a rider hangs on for dear life as a horse shoots off like a bat out of hell toward some big empty oil barrels placed strategically at one end of an arena and runs around them as fast as he can and then races back to the other end of the arena completely of his own free will while the rider tries not to fall off or cry because she thinks she broke her vagina and thank God the horse finally stopped and is that my pee? It's really fun.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“You are defending some unnamed territory inside of you that houses what's true. It exhausts you and burns you out.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“Surrender is a healing sentiment to return to, and in the end, I'm glad that my heart was launched into the air by a careless kid, because I was gifted the opportunity of learning how to heal it once it hit the ground.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“... collectively they all taught us generosity, kindness, and inclusion, and that you always share what you have, even when it's not much. My parents managed to construct a little safe haven for my sisters and me to build ourselves within, which seems almost impossible to me when I think about how quickly childhood seems to disappear these days. They have taught me about the truest kind of love: the kind that is steadfast and strong, even when it changes shape.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“My emotional world imploded, and there is nothing that could have been said or done to make it easier. No one was in the wrong, and maybe that is what made it so painful. I wanted someone to blame, but instead got the two people I loved most doing their best to navigate uncharted waters.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song