Jill Telford Quotes

Change? Start by keeping a small promise.

Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?

Write as though your life depended on it.

Understand something. Fall back from the old times and ways of doing things. Chemistry is deeper than the feels.

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.

I don't like to spend money; I like to spend time .

Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I'm living.

Old situations will emerge just to test you. Don't go backwards. Don't do it. Move forwards. Stay moving. Stay true to you

The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.

She wanted to and believed she could
- so she did.

Read as though your life depends on it.

It's not what happens. It's how you handle it.

When someone wants you and only you.
They'll apply mad pressure.
- If not, you're just something to do.

Reading to understand and writing to be understood.

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.

Law of Attraction 101 - the basics.
Don't waste someone's time if you don't want them wasting yours.

My heart is bigger than my fist.

When you don't forget you were once a scrappy kid from Scranton and you hustle until your family is set when you're gone.
HUSTLE, like no one is awake.
Day or night. Sunrise - sunset.
Hustle quietly,
when the lights are on and when
the lights are off.

Children who need the most love - will show it in the most unloving of ways.

The only thing we should scream into the world is love.

People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?

They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners ... I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children

Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.

Screaming love even when I'm ether.

Don't ask me what it means; ask me how it felt.

You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off.

The only reality is the now. Why live in the tomorrows and the yesterdays? Live now.

While thinking about who you are and how you are alive is powerful; feeling who you are and how you are alive is even more powerful.

Do the thing that scares you.

Just do what makes sense.

Imagine going a long time without seeing someone you love. Then after months or years getting the moment to see them and catch up. I think that's what death is like. Going a long time and missing them a lot, more and more each day. No matter how many years go by you miss them just as much as the first day they left. I miss my mom. Its been years. Its easier to manage but I miss her more and more. But I often think of the moment we will meet again and catch up again. In living life going a long time not seeing someone is tough then catching up right where you left off BUT imagine in death how powerful the feeling to see them again must be. Death is getting the chance to catch up and see them again. Experiencing the butterflies and that special high that is felt all over your body. Do not fear death. Embrace it as you do life. In life, love hard! Life moves fast. For when your time comes you have a chance to love hard again and catch up with those that left, those you've missed and those that missed you. Someone is there counting the days to seeing you again. Some you may not expect or some you've missed just as much. Don't fear what you think you're leaving behind. Don't fear at all. For what you leave is temporary, the living will too join you as you wait for them. And, that moment to catch up is worth the wait. You will pick up right where you left off as if time did not pass.

Stop. Shooting. Stars burn out like bullets falling from the sky.

Meet people where they are at in life.
The rest handles itself.

Never say how you feel, more than once. They heard you, the first time.

Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way.

I don't really enjoy experiencing pain. No one does. But we will become less human if we learn to detach ourselves from one another to the point that when we experience death of a beautiful being (our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, our brothers, our soul mates, our friends etc.) that it will not bother us that we will not feel. But see that's suppression. It will bother us somewhere deep inside. So, love someone. Hold them tight. Don't fear the loss. Fear the part of being too afraid to love someone. Love Everyone. It's inevitable: we all die. Thats the ugly part of life. But Love and being alive is so beautiful and so strong that the love, the memories stay even in death. Life is love, life is being alive to feel pain. The love the beautiful love always remains. Love. Life. Joy. Peace

There is no way to clearly capture or sum up life ... when fully lived.

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it.

Forget the American dream ... whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night ... the thing that makes you happy ... the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby or what you do in your spare time type of thing ... label that thing you do the thing you love to do. The thing you were born to do. When you stop doing what you love you lose a huge part of yourself. Don't get lost.

I wish we lived in a world where we'd be able to survive off our talents not money

Alchemy 101 turning nothing into something

Don't just read to read. Read to understand.

It doesn't matter the materials but what you do and how you interact. Relationships are the most important in the art of teaching. A school can have the most beautiful "stuff" but it's the care and commitment of a teacher. What matters most is a true teacher with the real stuff inside and helping others discover that real stuff inside themselves.

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last.

You may not always get what you want but you'll always get what you need.

An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.