Top 205 Quotes & Sayings by Jewel - Page 4

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.

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

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

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

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

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

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.

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.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I've always been a workhorse.

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America