Jill Telford Quotes

#1. The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.

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#2. My heart is bigger than my fist.

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#3. The only thing we should scream into the world is love.

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#4. Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?

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#5. They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners ... I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children

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#6. I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived.

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#7. Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

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#8. You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off.

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#9. Don't just read to read. Read to understand.

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#10. Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it.

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#11. The only reality is the now. Why live in the tomorrows and the yesterdays? Live now.

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#12. Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I'm living.

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#13. Write as though your life depended on it.

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#14. An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.

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#15. Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last.

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#16. Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

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#17. Just do what makes sense.

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#18. I wish we lived in a world where we'd be able to survive off our talents not money

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#19. Don't ask me what it means; ask me what it felt.

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#20. Don't ask me what it means; ask me how it felt.

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#21. Change? Start by keeping a small promise.

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#22. Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.

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#23. There is no way to clearly capture or sum up life ... when fully lived.

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#24. Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

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#25. A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

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#26. Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly.

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#27. Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.

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#28. Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.

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#29. Do the thing that scares you.

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#30. While thinking about who you are and how you are alive is powerful; feeling who you are and how you are alive is even more powerful.

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#31. We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

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#32. Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way.

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#33. People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?

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#34. I never wanted a too die for house, or a too die for car. I always wanted a too die for life.

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