University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Peace is not a result inside us from everything around us. Peace is not submissive nor passive. On the contrary, peace is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“If you buy an egg thinking it's a goose's egg, and when it hatches it is actually a bird of paradise; no… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people while they're still… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life backwards as compared to my peers. Everyone did incredibly stupid things as teenagers and pre-teens. I didn't.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“It was him, it was always him, they only needed to stand there with their feet buried into the muddy moss and… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“There is this certain rawness of soul that puts the polished ones on edge. Some of us just step out and the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“There is a relationship between the eye contacts we make and the perceptions that we create in our heads, a relationship between… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that is entangled… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“In this world, the thing people fear the most, and what pains people the most— is giving more than they receive. God… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“God is funny. He had a funny day when he made me. A funny, thoughtful, crazy day. He gave me a physique… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It's never too late! I know I've… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time...where no words abide.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I can assure everyone, that God is looking at the condition of your heart; not at the faith that you profess to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“In the building of walls to protect ourselves— we have managed to keep ourselves from the best in this life. And so… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Wanna know the fastest way to unhappiness? Spend your time judging other people's reasons for happiness! That way, you'll quickly lose your… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Do you really believe in destiny?" "How can I not believe in destiny, when there is no difference between my memories and… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The kindness that we receive from others in life, is also the kindness that we will want to give. The harshness that we receive… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“There are blue diamonds born to the world and given to those who only want glass crystals. There are blue roses born to the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world. — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to church but they cannot even manage the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Dear young woman, do not place your sense of beauty and self worth, upon the plastic pedestal called "what other people say to you",… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that is entangled with insecurities,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is supposed to be okay! I… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image