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If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
I'm becoming more and more myself with time.
I guess that's what grace is.
The refinement of your soul through time.
- Jewel
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact.
If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
- Jewel
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
- Jewel
Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't.
So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
- Jewel
I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad,
then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
- Jewel
Who will save your soul if you won't save you own?
- Jewel
Ride With the Devil.
- Jewel
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
The things you fear are undefeatable,
not by their nature, but by your approach.
- Jewel
I get bored very easily, ...
I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive
if I'm repeating something I'm good at.
So I'm always looking for new challenges.
- Jewel
I love the contradictions of people
- Jewel
You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how
to solve a political problem,
I don't know how to solve the pollution problem...
all I know is in my own life,
I need to figure out some sense of purpose,
I need to figure out how to be happy...
and I'm willing.
- Jewel
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
There are people selling thoughtlessness with such casualty.
- Jewel
I've always had a love for poetry,
and when I got signed to a record label I thought,
"How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry."
- Jewel
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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