Latest Jewel Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm always looking for ways that I can work from home with my home studio and stay busy. This is a great way to do it. Having a home studio has made projects like this a lot easier.

  Jewel

  Home, Busy

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

  Jewel

  Tides, Sometimes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

  Jewel

  Self Worth, Self, Standards

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.

  Jewel

  Mom, Boys, Years

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

• All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

  Jewel

  Perfection, Things Change, All Things

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

  Jewel

  Self Worth, Love Is, Self Love

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one.

  Jewel

  Jobs, Fun, Son

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

  Jewel

  Giving, Feelings, Progress

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.

  Jewel

  Uncomfortable Feeling, Tolerance, Feelings

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.

  Jewel

  Pain, Heart, Mean

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

  Jewel

  Thinking, Tunnels, Forever

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

  Jewel

  Pain, Self, Allies

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

  Jewel

  Writing, Feelings, Secret

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

  Jewel

  Light, Darkness, Despair

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.

  Jewel

  Pain, Emotional, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want.

  Jewel

  The End Of The Day, Want, Path

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

  Jewel

  Times Like These, Worry, Would Be

  Song: Hands

• I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

  Jewel

  Writing, Telling The Truth, Vulnerable

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

  Jewel

  Emotional, Quality, Way

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

  Jewel

  Loneliness, Talking, Secret

• My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.

  Jewel

  Struggle, Moving, Home

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.

  Jewel

  Alive, Fingers, Touched

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.

  Jewel

  Becoming, Vulnerability

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

  Jewel

  Seductive, Life Is

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

  Jewel

  Simple, Light, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.