110+ Jewel Quotes (Soulful, Melodic And Poetic)

Jewel is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress. She rose to fame in 1995 with her debut album, Pieces of You, which was certified 12x platinum by the RIAA. She has since released several studio albums and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

Top 10 Jewel Quotes

1. 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.
2. I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.
3. I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
4. Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.
5. 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.
6. Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
7. What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.
8. I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
9. 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.
10. All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

Jewel Short Quotes

• We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America
• I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.
• I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
• The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
• In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.
• Your life becomes what you believe.
• People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.
• Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.
• Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.
• Words can crush things that are unseen.

Jewel Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page. — 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

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

I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was. — Jewel

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

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 try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time. — 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

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

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

If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it? — Jewel

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

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. — Jewel

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets. — Jewel

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

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

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not. — Jewel

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

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

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced. — Jewel

Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own? — Jewel

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. — Jewel

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

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time. — Jewel

The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless. — Jewel

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

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

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings. — Jewel

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

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame. — Jewel

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

Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want. — Jewel

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. — Jewel

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see — Jewel

I'm always looking for ways that I can work from home with my home studio and stay busy. This is a great way to do it. Having a home studio has made projects like this a lot easier. — Jewel

I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life. — Jewel

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them. — Jewel

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

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in — Jewel

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer. — Jewel

We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe. — Jewel

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon. — Jewel

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young. — Jewel

I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified. — Jewel

We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves — Jewel

Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status. — Jewel

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

Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer. — Jewel

I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening. — Jewel

Faith and hope are the antidote. Stay actively involved in manifesting your dreams and the world created will be one we all want to live in. — Jewel

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

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. — Jewel

My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one. — Jewel

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

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism. — Jewel

We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray — Jewel

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

We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend. — Jewel

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

Only kindness matters. We are God's hands. — Jewel

Well 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 These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart — Jewel

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

In the end only kindness matters. — Jewel

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

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it. — Jewel

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

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more. — Jewel

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity. — Jewel

We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable. — 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

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

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

All through the night I'll be standing over you All through the night I'll be watching over you And through the bad dreams I'll be right there, Baby holding your hand, Telling you everything is all right. And when you cry I'll be right there Telling you were never Anything less than beautiful. So don't worry I'm your Angel standing by. — Jewel

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

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it. — Jewel

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. — Jewel

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear. — Jewel

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

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

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

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by. — Jewel

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

I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in. — Jewel

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

A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon. — Jewel

What we call human nature, is actually human habit. — Jewel

My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win. — Jewel

Life Lessons by Jewel

1. Jewel's work teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be.
2. Her music encourages us to embrace our vulnerabilities and be true to ourselves.
3. Jewel's lyrics remind us to stay humble and grateful for all the blessings in our lives.