Jewel Quotes

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.

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

I'm becoming more and more myself with time.

I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

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

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.

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.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

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.

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.

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America

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

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

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

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

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

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.

Your life becomes what you believe.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

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.

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.

Words can crush things that are unseen.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Cynicism is for lightweights.

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.

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.

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

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

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.