Top 180 Jewel Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I have this theory – that if we’re told we’re bad, then that’s the only ideal we’ll ever have.”

— Jewel

152. “Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.”

— Jewel

153. “Reality wins, and I’d rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.”

— Jewel

154. “My innocence is not lost – it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call “breaking” is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.”

— Jewel

155. “What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.”

— Jewel

156. “We really become one – we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor – freedom, expression, acceptance, love.”

— Jewel

157. “Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn’t become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.”

— Jewel

158. “We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.”

— Jewel

159. “Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I’ve always hoped to have a really long career. So I’ve tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn’t realize the two could go together.”

— Jewel

160. “Don’t accept the fear that scarcity exists in any corner of your life. There is enough love, enough time, enough healing to go around. Give what you wish to receive.”

— Jewel

161. “My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn’t come across – the music was pretty.”

— Jewel

162. “We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit.”

— Jewel

163. “I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage.”

— Jewel

164. “I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.”

— Jewel

165. “One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, “I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You’re no more special than me.” I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, “Thanks. I agree,” and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box.”

— Jewel

166. “Fame and power do not change us; they amplify us. If we are insecure, we grow more so. If we are addictive, we become a greater addict and insatiable. If we are desirous of truth, we seek it more. If we are generous, we become more so. If we seek to fill holes through dishonest means, we have greater access to do so. Fame and power are masterful teachers.”

— Jewel

167. “It’s really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.”

— Jewel

168. “I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.”

— Jewel

169. “Audiences don’t care if you sing correctly. They care if they feel something. If they don’t, they forget you. Emotional honesty creates loyalty and a lifelong connection above all else.”

— Jewel

170. “When angered I ask myself, “If I removed my anger or hurt from this situation and acted out of love and unity – if I acted from my highest self – what would I do now?”

— Jewel

171. “I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.”

— Jewel

172. “I used my intuition like a weapon; whatever insecurity and weakness I sensed in him, I exploited.”

— Jewel

173. “Hatred is hurt masquerading-it is an energy used to fool someone into thinking they are frightening when in truth they are frightened.”

— Jewel

174. “The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor- freedom, expression, acceptance, love.”

— Jewel

175. “You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.”

— Jewel

176. “So what are we given? We’re also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.”

— Jewel

177. “You can boil down all interactions to two categories: ones that grow love and ones that diminish it. Choose love.”

— Jewel

178. “It’s pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I’m winning or losing but me.”

— Jewel

179. “I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don’t outrun pain.”

— Jewel

180. “Cynicism is for lightweights.”

— Jewel

181. “Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution.”

— Jewel

182. “When the need for someone else’s love or approval outweighs one’s own, self-betrayal is near.”

— Jewel

183. “I can’t tell you about the pain, and how my heart to this day screams to have a mom in my life. But I know that it is not safe with her. Every day I miss having a mom. But I don’t miss Nedra. I will always want a mom, the concept of what a mom is. But I don’t have that. I never did, no matter how hard I tried to fool myself. Nedra is not that. Reality wins, and I’d rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.”

— Jewel

184. “Meditation helped me to access the same thing my writing did: my intelligence and my instincts beyond the turmoil that inhabited the forefront of my mind.”

— Jewel

185. “I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don’t necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.”

— Jewel

186. “I cry now as I write this. So lasting are the scars of the child who never feels worthy of love. So many cycles in my life of having to learn that I am indeed worthy of tenderness.”

— Jewel

187. “I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That’s where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.”

— Jewel

188. “The stealing began again with carrots, which apparently are the gateway vegetable, because soon it led to all manner of produce theft.”

— Jewel

189. “What bends does not break.”

— Jewel

190. “Today they are still strong and self-sufficient, not wilting flowers waiting for a man to help. They shoe their own horses and peel logs and build homes and get anything done that needs doing. They are feminine and wild as a mountain meadow.”

— Jewel