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Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.
Jewel
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Jewel
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 23
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Jewel Kilcher
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous there's really nothing to lose.
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So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
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In the end only kindness matters.
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Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
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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.
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I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
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I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.
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I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.
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Your life becomes what you believe.
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Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
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I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
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Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.
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I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.
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Cynicism is for lightweights.
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Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.
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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.
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The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
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