J.D. Young Quotes

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

I am always with London On Da Track, Wheezy, 808 Mafia Mike Will Made It, Ricky Racks.

What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

Tragedies happen, accidents happen.

Pause and remember - You will have a lot more time and energy to spend on yourself when you stop worrying and wasting time on how others need to change.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

I'm not the same as I was long ago, I've learned some new things and I hope that it shows.

If you love the truth, you can remember it.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

Live Fast, Love Hard, DieYoung (And Leave A Beautiful Memory).

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

Live music is better.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

Mine is the night, with all her stars.

Pause and remember-- Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven