Quotes by C. JoyBell C.

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”

“I have a dream.” “Is your dream very big?” “No.” “Well is it very grand?” “Not either.” “Neither?” “Neither.” “What is it then?” “It is very shiny.”

“Freedom is a place, an area. Its a higher place. There are some other people that are here, and things that are here which are unseen. But you first have to set yourself free and believe in what you cannot see, believe that there is something more out there. In freedom can be found many devotions: a devotion to love, a desire to believe, a willingness to be happy, a perseverance to have peace. All these unseen things breathe and grow in the unseen soul. A free person is not an uncommitted person, but in a free person you will find a deep devotion, and a desire to be devoted to even more.”

“Its not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: This is what you should wear at age twenty, That is what you must act like at age twenty-five, This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen. But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! Its always wonderful to be elegant, its always fashionable to have grace, its always glamorous to be brave, and its always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!”

“I’m barely human. I’m more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can “touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!”

“One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. Its also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, dont feel bad about it (about taking their blindfolds off and having to watch them cringe in the newfound sunlight); I know its hard, but youre doing them a lasting favor. And a wider perspective can be difficult for you yourself to accept, in the beginning (during the time that you squint while the sunlight stings your own eyes), but later youll find yourself coming back to it, even if you abandoned it as something worthless; youll look for it, one day. Or it will grow on you. Perspective.”

“I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that’s not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn’t long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, because of this I love my God, and I love these people.”

“I believe in going with the flow. I dont believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone elses. Everyone has their own river, and you dont need to swim,float,sail on theirs, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I dont believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.”

“The house of God on Earth is not a cement, or a wooden, or a steel, or a marble building built by man. The house of God on Earth is the grass, the trees, the mountains, the seas, the human heart.”

“Growing up means learning what life is. When youre little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isnt like that, for anybody; you cant fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You cant live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You cant wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You cant wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you cant know whats yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- thats yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those arent yours, because those havent happened to you.”

“You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.”

“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply cant see a chasm in between the two. What is spiritual produces what is scientific and when science is used to disprove the spiritual, its always done with the intent to do so; a personal contempt. As a result, scientists today only prove their inferiority to the great founding fathers of the sciences who were practitioners of alchemy. Todays science is washed-out and scrubbed-down and robbed of everything mystical and spiritual, a knowledge born of contempt and discontent. Or perhaps, there are a few who wish to keep those secrets to themselves and serve everyone else up with a tasteless version of science and the idiots of today blindly follow their equally blind leaders.”

“Freedom is not the absence of commitment, and to be committed to something or to someone does not mean the loss of freedom. But freedom exists in the realm of the unbound and to be free is to be committed to that which is a part of the unbound realm. Whatever sets your soul to flight is freedom. If someone sets your soul to flight, to stay with that person is not to lose freedom but to stay with that person is to retain freedom. Together you have what is unbound. Whatever will swell your spirit and give you wings, is freedom, and it is a fault if you let go of that for the very reason that you are afraid of losing your freedom and in doing so you have in fact let go of what will keep you unbound.”

“I am going to open myself up to all that is superior in the world and beyond and I am going to spend time trying to take delight in things! Not finding ruin in them! If the ruin of you is what you look for, the ruin of you is what you are going to find!”

“Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!”

“Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.”

“The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and its your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, whos not full of hate, whos able to smile and be carefree. So thats who I have to be.”

“As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, sour auras! The good thing is that if you dont want to be a lemon, you dont have to be! Just dont let those lemons rub themselves all over you! And you dont even have to save them! Let lemons be lemons! One of the most important things that I have ever learned, is that I dont have to save people.”

“It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!”

“Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and lets burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth!”