Jade Bird Quotes

It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

My mother said, 'Did you ever believe you would be an activist?' I said, 'No, not really.' But I just felt in my heart that I needed to step up and be a leader in the forefront.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

I can't expect rappers to be politicized when Americans are not socially motivated enough to care about their own lives and public policy as much as they were even 20 years ago. But I'm compelled to make the music I make regardless.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.