Jewel famous quotes

In the end only kindness matters.
-- Jewel

#Kindness #Matter #Ends

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.
-- Jewel

#Life #Bravery #Live Your Life

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

#Lost Friendship #Being Sad #Needs

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
-- Jewel

#Time #Pain #Grace

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.
-- Jewel

#Courage #Greatest Love #Nothing To Lose

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
-- Jewel

#Hypocrisy #Needles

I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.
-- Jewel

#Pregnancy #Trying #Lucky

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
-- Jewel

#Integrity #People #Brave

It's been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.
-- Jewel

#Night

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
-- Jewel

#Careers #Two #Long

Your life becomes what you believe.
-- Jewel

#Spiritual #Believe #Transformation

I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.
-- Jewel

#Loyal #Homeless #Following

I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.
-- Jewel

#Weed #Simple #Thinking

Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.
-- Jewel

#Drinking #Technology #Water

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.
-- Jewel

#Wish

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.
-- Jewel

#Motivational #Dream #Knowing

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.
-- Jewel

#Love #Excuse #Mistaken

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America
-- Jewel

#America #Working Together #Youth

Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS
-- Jewel

#Kids #Risk #Abuse

Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.
-- Jewel

#Girl #Boys #America

I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage.
-- Jewel

#Believe #Gay #Liberty

It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.
-- Jewel

#Use #Maps #Inches

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, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.
-- Jewel

#Fun #Courageous #Chance

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
-- Jewel

#Song #Serious #Different

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.
-- Jewel

#Home #Kids #Thinking

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

#Sad #Fall #Bad Day

If I could tell the world just one thing It would be that we're all OK 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 For light does the darkness most fear My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken
-- Jewel

#Love #Light #Hands

Words can crush things that are unseen.
-- Jewel

#Love #Crush #Dream

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
-- Jewel

#Glowing #Parent #Generations

Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources
-- Jewel

#War #Cancer #Years

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.
-- Jewel

#Thinking #Records #Way

My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken.
-- Jewel

#Hands #Broken #Atheism

I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you
-- Jewel

#Break Up #Ex Boyfriend #Break

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone
-- Jewel

#Break Up #Dream #Ex Boyfriend

Optimisn is a choice. Cynicism isnt smarter - it's just safer.
-- Jewel

#Choices #Cynicism

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

#Regret #Voice #Bravery

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
-- Jewel

#Bad Relationship #Theory

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.
-- Jewel

#Book #Reading #Bored

Cynicism is for lightweights.
-- Jewel

#Cynicism

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.
-- Jewel

#Suspicion

I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.
-- Jewel

#Pressure

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.
-- Jewel

#Agreement #People #Tvs

I have this theory that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, one day we will become what we see. Anyone can start a conflict. It's harder yet to disregard it. I'd rather see the world from another angle. We are everyday angels...
-- Jewel

#Angel #Ideas #Everyday

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.
-- Jewel

#Artist #Honest #Goodness

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

#Political #Needs #Purpose

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

#Moving #Heart #Feel Better

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.
-- Jewel

#Writing #Knowing #Goal

We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters
-- Jewel

#Kindness #Fighting #Men

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"
-- Jewel

#Beauty #Sexy #Smart

I love life and I love that about people... I adore the human experience, I really adore the ... I love the contradictions of people... I don't mind being sexy and girlish and womanly, and all those things at the same time... smart and very
-- Jewel

#Sexy #Crazy #Smart

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

#Believe #Reality #Thinking

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

#Love #Heart #Lines

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

#Song #Love You #Eye

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

#I Like You #Believe #Thinking

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.
-- Jewel

#Faith #Light #Darkness

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

#Stay Strong #Thinking #Might

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.
-- Jewel

#War #Home #Justice

Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
-- Jewel

#Thinking #Miracle #Suffering

Dreams last so long Even after you're gone I know you love me And soon you will see You were meant for me And I was meant for you Go about my business, I'm doing fine Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not much to say Hearts are broken every day I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead I try to tell myself it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight
-- Jewel

#Dream #Song #Heart

When you're standing in deep water And you're bailing yourself out with a straw And when you're drowning in deep water And you wake up making love to a wall Well it's these little time that help to remind It's nothing without love, love, love
-- Jewel

#Song #Wall #Water

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK
-- Jewel

#Would Be #World

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
-- Jewel

#Innocence #Immortality #Achieve

I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn
-- Jewel

#Simplicity