A Quote by Jewel

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

Jewel

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Quote Author

Jewel
American - Musician
Born: May 23, 1974

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

Sixto Rodriguez

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

Roger Delano Hinkins

The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

Carl Sandburg

It is so easy to avoid getting in a fist fight. If you're at a point where you're squaring up against someone in public, then it's on you. There are so many ways to not get in a fist fight.

Paul F. Tompkins

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Eric Hoffer

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

Joseph Parker

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

Herbert Newton Casson

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Alistair Begg

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

Marie of Romania

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

Victor Hugo

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

Gayle Forman

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.