Jewel Quotes

#1. I moved out of home when I was 15.

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#2. Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed - if it remains open there is nothing to break.

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#3. sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words
there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between the pregnant pause of all you will not say
and all i can not ask

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#4. I find you get out of people what you put into them.

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#5. Only kindness matters. We are God's hands.

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#6. I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

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#7. A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon.

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

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#9. True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

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

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#11. Meditation helped me to access the same thing my writing did: my intelligence and my instincts beyond the turmoil that inhabited the forefront of my mind.

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#12. Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

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#13. I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.

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#14. I'm not a partygoer.

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

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#16. Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

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

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

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

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#20. Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

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#21. We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves

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#22. 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.

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

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

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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

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#28. Everything is temporary if you give it enough time ...

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#29. 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,'

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#30. Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

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#31. If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.

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

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#33. Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.

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#34. 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.

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#35. Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.

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#36. What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

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#37. 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.

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#38. I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

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#39. I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.

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#40. Cynicism is for lightweights.

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#41. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.

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#42. 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

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#43. But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see

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#44. My fans get passionate about certain songs.

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#45. Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

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#46. I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

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

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#48. 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.

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#49. 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.

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

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#51. It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.

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#52. 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.

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#53. I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

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#54. I did not write love songs as a sixteen-year-old. I did not write about crushes or about mean girls. I wrote about my life - about the injustices and inequities and the search for answers and self-responsibility.

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#55. 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

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#56. It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

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#57. The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence

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#58. 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.

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#59. 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?

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#60. 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.

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#61. I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

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#62. I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

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#63. There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.

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

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#65. I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.

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#66. 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.

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

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#68. In the end only kindness matters.

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#69. 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.

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

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#71. Hurt people can become hurtful,

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#72. 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.

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#73. I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.

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#74. 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.

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#75. I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.

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#76. Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

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#77. I'm not a wild and crazy person.

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

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#79. I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.

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#80. And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.

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#81. I have always been a workaholic.

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#82. Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.

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#83. Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

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#84. I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.

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#85. Audiences don't care if you sing correctly. They care if they feel something. If they don't, they forget you. Emotional honesty creates loyalty and a lifelong connection above all else.

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#86. An artist's most valuable asset is individuality.

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#87. We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray

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#88. 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.

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#89. Your life becomes what you believe.

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#90. I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

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#91. 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

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#92. I was so lucky to be raised believing in some part of myself - believing that if I put my mind to something, I should be able to figure it out. My

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#93. Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it.

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#94. I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

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#95. I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

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#96. A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you.

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#97. My innocence is not lost - it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

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#98. They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn.

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#99. We really become one - we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor - freedom, expression, acceptance, love.

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

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