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The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existenceJewel
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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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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 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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Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.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