J Jena Quotes

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if you still love the dirt, then I think you should stay on board.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

I love talking about movies that mean something to me.

If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

I think everyone should follow their instincts, and go with what they feel, and follow their heart.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Every brick being thrown at me I will use to build my Empire!

Poor people are those who does not have Dreams rather does not Money...

Poor people are those who do not have Dreams rather do not have Money…

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.

When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within.

Even those afraid of the dark must live through half of each day as night, to come to see the beauty in each.

Friends are life's ingredient that makes every sad moment sweeter, every difficult time easier, and every normal moment extraordinary.

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close

True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.

There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken

The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose.

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

Worry adds no hours to a day, nor happiness to a smile, so it is not worth succumbing to, especially when it obscures the sight of potential.

I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.