Jill Telford Quotes

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

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

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

Write as though your life depended on it.

Do the thing that scares you.

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived.

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

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

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly.

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

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.

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

Just do what makes sense.

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

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

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

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

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

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived.

A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

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

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo

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

Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.

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

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

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.

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