Jewel Quotes

In the end only kindness matters.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

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.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

Your life becomes what you believe.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

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 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.

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