Top 50 Jamie Tworkowski Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”

— Jamie Tworkowski

2. “Don’t give up. Don’t give up no your story. Don’t give up on the people you love. Hope is real. Love is real. It’s all worth fighting for.”

— Jamie Tworkowski

3. “It’s better to be true than to be cool. Be yourself. Do what you love.”

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4. “We’re all in this together. It’s okay to be honest. It’s okay to ask for help. It’s okay to say you’re stuck, or that you’re haunted or that you can’t begin to let go. We can all relate to those things. Screw the stigma that says otherwise. Break the silence and break the cycle, for you are more than just your pain. You are not alone. And people need other people.”

— Jamie Tworkowski

5. “You are still alive, and today is the most interesting day. Today is the best place to live.”

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6. “We have to fight to not get lost in our own pain. We have to fight to remember the good, the thing we love around us, the things that we are thankful for. Don’t buy the lie that your story is just a tragedy. And don’t buy the lie that you are the only character in your story.”

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7. “We often ask God to show up. We pray prayers of rescue. Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue, to be His body, to move for things that matter. He is not invisible when we come alive. i might be simple, but more and more, i believe God works in love, speaks in love, is revealed in our love.”

— Jamie Tworkowski

8. “Live with grace and dignity. It’s a middle finger to the darkness.”

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9. “We are only asked to love, to offer hope to the many hopeless. We don’t get to choose all the endings, but we are asked to play the rescuers. We won’t solve all mysteries and our hearts will certainly break in such a vulnerable life, but it is the best way. We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we’re called home.”

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10. “Don Miller says we’re called to hold our hands against the wounds of a broken world, to stop the bleeding. i agree so greatly.”

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11. “There is something true inside the song you can’t stop listening to.”

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12. “Be loved. Be known. Love people and know people. Be so brave as to raise a hand for help when you need it. Make friends and make sure they know they matter. Be loyal to them and fight for them. Remind them what’s true and invite them to do the same when you forget. If you do some losing or you walk with someone else in their defeat, live with dignity and grace. It is a middle finger to the darkness.”

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13. “Perhaps you can relate to feeling in the middle, to having questions in the air. I don’t know about you, but I hope to live a good story. To see things invisible and watch them come to life. The critics will probably always be there calling us fools or crooks, but we should just keep going. They can’t see what we see and the are not the thing that drives us.”

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14. “Time has a way of putting things back where they belong. Love has a way of breaking the silence.”

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15. “It used to bother me a lot, used to steal my sleep, when people would say meant things or things that weren’t true. I didn’t understand it, and it hurt my feelings. But I’ve learned to focus on the work and the heart of the matter – the people in the balance.”

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16. “So if you feel as if you feel too much, well then you are not alone. May these words find you like a friend.”

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17. “Perhaps you have to have a little bit of hope to believe that beauty can be found, to believe that life does come back, that something can surprise you. And maybe hope and wonder are somehow related. Maybe wonder feeds hope and hope feeds wonder. You see something beautiful and it reminds you that it’s possible to see something beautiful.”

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18. “Guilt and regret, those are awful places. You know that. So don’t live there. Do not despair. Do not be afraid. Grace is the interesting thing. Hope. And God must be a pretty big fan of today, because you keep waking up to it.”

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19. “Love is a thousand things, but at the center is a choice. It is a choice to love people. Left to myself, i get quiet and bitter and critical. i get angry. i feel sorry for myself. It is a choice to love people. It is a choice to be kind. It is a choice to be patient, to be honest, to live with grace. i would like to start making better choices.”

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20. “Our job now, those of us simply observing today, shocked by this awful news, our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another, and to meet one another in our questions.”

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21. “We need one another. There’s no reason to judge. People are more fragile than you could possibly imagine.”

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22. “And God must be a pretty big fan of today, because you keep waking up to it. You have made known your request for a hundred different yesterdays, but the sun keeps rising on this things that has never been known.”

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23. “If you love somebody, tell them. If there is conflict, let it go and fight instead for peace. Break the numb false silence and break the distance too. Laugh and cry and apologize and start again. This life is short and fragile but friendship is among the greatest miracles.”

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24. “My thoughts gravitate to whatever’s missing, whatever’s lost or broken or painful. My heart worries and fears. There is plenty to be thankful for but those are not the scenes I stay stuck in.”

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25. “Fall suggests it’s possible to change, that things can still be new, alive, and bright again, alive and bright like Brooklyn.”

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26. “Death will come for all of us but let us fight to live.”

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27. “We’re saying the story doesn’t end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.”

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28. “More than anything, my wish for you is this: That when your awful darkest days come, you will know you’re not alone. Pain will tell you to keep quiet, but that’s a lie. Life is fragile and we all break in different ways. I hope you know you can be honest. I hope you know that you can ask for help. Did you catch that? It is absolutely positively okay to ask for help. It simply means you’re human. Help is real and it is possible; people find it every day.”

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29. “Celebration days... have a way of reminding us of what’s missing.”

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30. “We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again.”

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31. “Maybe we begin to hel pour friends become unhaunted when we let them know we’re not afraid of their pain. When we ask to really know them. When we ask to see inside. When we do our part to go beyond the distance and the smile, deeper, to “Who are you?” and “How are you?” and “Are you okay?”

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32. “I’ll leave you with something I heard at lunch today: “Life is basically about these two questions: What will you celebrate? What will you grieve?”

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33. “We often ask God to show up. We pray prayers of rescue. Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue, to be His body, to move for things that matter. He is not invisible when we come alive.”

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34. “The thing about the idea that you’re not alone is that it doesn’t do us much good if it’s just an idea. We have to do something with it.”

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35. “With no fear, he charges his heart at the pointed world as a measure of sacrifice.”

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36. “He told me once that he believed friendship might be life’s greatest gift. What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.”

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37. “The truth is that we’re all living stories.”

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38. “But i believe in a God who maybe doesn’t scream at people the first time he meets them.”

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39. “We don’t just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.”

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40. “Don’t live only in your head. It’s lonely and it’s dangerous.”

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41. “If i have learned anything in the last couple of years, i have learned that it’s a lot easier to talk about loving people than it is to actually love people.”

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42. “And are there broken things you were made to fight to fix?”

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43. “That guy with tears in his eyes and ghosts in his heart. He loved her, and you could see it.”

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44. “Love is a choice as much as it is magic. Magic comes in moments, but choices stretch out over time. We make them new each morning.”

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45. “Acting may get us the applause we want, but taking a risk on being ourselves is the only path toward true intimacy. And true intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.”

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46. “I just have to believe that we are all more loved than we’ll ever know. And we’re all in this together.”

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47. “I’ve become embarrassed by most things called “Christian”, but I still believe in a God who loves people.”

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48. “There are dreams inside of me and those are mine and my guess is that they’re there for a reason. But for all the days like now where the dreams are asked to be only dreams, I’m gonna keep getting out of bed. I’m gonna keep living my story. I’m gonna believe that there is reason and purpose, and power in my life. I’m gonna believe that I’m alive inside a story bigger than my pain, bigger than everything missing.”

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49. “What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.”

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50. “A shouted ‘You’re going to Hell’ is an awful introduction to a God who desires to love and know His children.”

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