Rachael Yamagata Quotes

#1. Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.

Rachael Yamagata

#2. I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

Rachael Yamagata

#3. Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.

Rachael Yamagata

#4. Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Dick Cavett

#5. There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

Evelyn Waugh

#6. When I'm working 16-hour days and I can't work out, I get angry very easily. It's because I'm missing all those good endorphins. For me, exercise equals happiness.

Heather Morris

#7. Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.

Rachael Yamagata

#8. Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

Rachael Yamagata

#9. I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It', and they gave me the drawings they wanted me to photograph of her up there, but she didn't really care for them that much, and ultimately they weren't even used.

Douglas Kirkland

#10. So for those of you falling in love,
Keep it kind, keep it good, keep it right.
Throw yourself in the midst of danger,
But keep one eye open at night.

Rachael Yamagata

#11. If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Carl Jung

#12. I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

Rachael Yamagata

#13. Girls weren't drug addicted, they were love addicted, and that, I'll learn, is far harder to treat.

Rachel Lloyd

#14. My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine.

Rachael Yamagata

#15. There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.

Rachael Yamagata

#16. I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

Rachael Yamagata

#17. Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.

Rachael Yamagata

#18. I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

Rachael Yamagata

#19. Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.

Rachael Yamagata

#20. My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best ... my very best, I set you free

Rachael Yamagata

#21. Love could solve everything.

Rachael Yamagata

#22. If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true.

Rachael Yamagata

#23. Live your dreams, not your fears! A.Hume

Albina Hume

#24. Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.

Kapil Dev

#25. Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse who did professional person-bustling.

Suzette Haden Elgin

#26. Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

Greg Satell

#27. One of the most underutilized resources we have on the planet today is the good intentions of citizens and our willingness to make a difference.

Kosha Joubert

#28. Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are.

Debasish Mridha

#29. It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I get attention for it, whether it's on stage or in life - I have sort of a love-hate relationship with all of it. That makes me feel really stark naked.

Rachael Yamagata

#30. Things from the heart don't have an explanation.

Pope Francis

#31. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

#32. I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love

Rachael Yamagata

#33. I do have faith that something better is always coming for you.

Rachael Yamagata

#34. In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?

Rachael Yamagata

#35. On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.

Heinrich Boll