Quotes by C. JoyBell C.

“Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that dont really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends arent really an ending; some things are never-ending.”

“The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. Theyre on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.”

“There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?”

“Its definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When youre graceful, people say you lack personality; when youre serene, people say youre boring; when youre confident, people say youre arrogant; when youre feminine, people say youre too girly; and when you climb trees, people say youre too much of a tomboy! As a woman, you really need to develop a very strong sense of self and the earlier you can do that, the better! You have to be all the things that you are, without allowing other peoples ignorance change you! I realized that they dont know what grace is, they cant identify serenity, they have inferiority complexes, they are incapable of being feminine, and they dont know how to climb trees!”

“I dont look for love. Love looks for me. Why? Because it needs me. Because Im not afraid of it.”

“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. Its the man who is stupid!”

“When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere, while the whole time, I was thinking Oh my goodness, how wonderful, people can drink water from anywhere. We can be in the exact same place, looking at the exact same thing, but see that thing in a completely different way. You can go around the world, and go to all the beautiful places, but never be happy, because happiness is something that you bring inside of you, it is not where you are or what you are looking at, but it is how you are and how you look at.”

“We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!”

“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”

“Maybe we shouldnt begin to stop believing in God when He starts to let go of our hand; because at that moment He begins to let go of your hand, thats the moment Hes begun to believe in YOU! He says, I believe in you, I know you can. And thats not the time to stop believing in someone, when He is believing in you. A good father knows when to let go and start believing that you can. We may not understand it at first, but after we look at ourselves and say Wow, Im awesome, I did that all by myself. Then we say Thanks, dad. If you never let go of me, I would have never learned how to fly.”

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”

“The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that youre the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better.”

“You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself dont know it, all of that doesnt even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. Its not like you have forever, so dont waste any of your seconds, dont throw even one of your moments away.”

“In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.”

“There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.”

“I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me.”

“Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say she is so passionate you dont want people to think about you and remember you and say she is so polite, because, who cares about polite?”

“I just believe that us as women— should not criticize nor pull down other women. And why? Because we’re all just trying our best to be beautiful! We all just want to be loved, we want to be beautiful, we’re all trying to leave our own legacy! The good news is that the universe is unending and that means there is enough space for each woman on earth to leave her own mark and to be her own legacy. To be her own kind of beautiful. So why spend even a second on trying to take away from another woman? Trying to steal, trying to criticize, trying to oppress? There is enough space for every woman and every kind of beautiful, in this vast cosmos! When you waste any amount of time trying to take what is another’s— you are wasting your huge chunk of a galaxy that’s already been given to you!”

“Peace is the number one beautiful ornament you can wear, I really believe that. They say you should always wear a smile, but I dont believe that you should always wear a smile, seriously, youre going to look stupid! But peace, you should always carry peace within you, its the most beautifying thing you could ever have or do. Peace makes your heart beautiful and it makes you look beautiful, too. You want to have perfect physical posture when you stand, sit, and walk, and peace is the perfect posture of the soul, really. Try perfect posture outside as well as inside. Peace creates grace and grace gives peace.”

“Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore happiness and cleave unto joy! Now, now, lets not sugar-coat things! Lust has a lot more to do with life and what is the good of life if you do not carry much lust inside of you at all times? And joy is a noble thing, but happiness though fleeting can be found every day and in every small little way!”