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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
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Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
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Who will save your soul if you won't save you own?
- Jewel
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
- Jewel
I adore the human experience
- 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
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
I love the contradictions of people
- 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
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Ride With the Devil.
- 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
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
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact.
If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
- 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
The things you fear are undefeatable,
not by their nature, but by your approach.
- Jewel
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew
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
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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
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
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
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
The best comfort I could offer
was to just let her tell her story.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
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
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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