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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
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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Jewel Kilcher
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Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.
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Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.
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Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
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I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.
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But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see
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I didn't mean to be a songwriter I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
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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.
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I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
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I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you
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I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
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I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.
Jewel
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.
Jewel
I'd rather see the world from a different angle.
Jewel
Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS
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Only kindness matters. We are God's hands.
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Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.
Jewel
We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe.
Jewel
I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
Jewel
The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
Jewel
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.
Jewel