34 Quotes & Sayings By Jewel

Jewel is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, celebrity chef, and mother of three. She has been featured in magazines such as Good Housekeeping and O, The Oprah Magazine. Jewel is the founder of The Kitchen, Inc., a company that helps chefs become better businesspeople through education and practical tools. She is also the author of the best-selling book, The Sweet Life: Living Happy, Healthy, and Wealthy on One Dollar A Day Read more

Jewel's motto is "Eat the rainbow" which she uses to encourage people to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables.

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Don't worry mother, it'll be alright And don't worry sister, say your prayers and sleep right It'll be fine lover of mine It'll be just fine Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom No longer lend you strength to that which you wish to be free from Fill your lives with love and bravery And you shall lead a live uncommon Jewel
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Well 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 These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart Jewel
The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but...
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The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but by your approach Jewel
The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its...
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The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence Jewel
It was hard to bear your soul while someone was...
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It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought. Jewel
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Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so. Jewel
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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
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What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. Jewel
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Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy. Jewel
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Being idolized and being torn down felt oddly similar. They both made me feel alone. Friendship and trust should be earned, and when you're famous, people seem to want to give them to you whether you've earned them or not, and it felt dishonest to me. Fame was not real. It was all a projection–fame made me a blank canvas that people projected their love, lust, troubles, self-worth, and desire upon. Fame and power do not change us, they amplify us. Jewel
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You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it. Jewel
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My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken Jewel
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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
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This is the best worst time of my life. Jewel
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We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams. Jewel
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Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions. Jewel
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In the end only kindness matters. Jewel
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Dreams last so long, even after you're gone Jewel
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. Jewel
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True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail. Jewel
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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
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So you write to our congressmen With bleeding pens Of the sorrow within And in return they just send Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show Jewel
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For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom. Jewel
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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
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Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist. Jewel
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I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. Jewel
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I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together. Jewel
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I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for. Jewel
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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, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds. Jewel
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Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. Jewel
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I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. Jewel
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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
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I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you. Jewel