I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
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Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
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.
- Jewel
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
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.
- Jewel
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
I'm becoming more and more myself with time.
I guess that's what grace is.
The refinement of your soul through time.
- Jewel
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad,
then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
- Jewel
Ride With the Devil.
- Jewel
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
Who will save your soul if you won't save you own?
- Jewel
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
- Jewel
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.
- Jewel
Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't.
So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
- Jewel
I love the contradictions of people
- Jewel
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact.
If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
- Jewel
The things you fear are undefeatable,
not by their nature, but by your approach.
- Jewel
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
I get bored very easily, ...
I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive
if I'm repeating something I'm good at.
So I'm always looking for new challenges.
- Jewel
You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel
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
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
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.
- Jewel
There are people selling thoughtlessness with such casualty.
- Jewel
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I've always had a love for poetry,
and when I got signed to a record label I thought,
"How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry."
- Jewel
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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