People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give to our community. You can give from overflow. It's very hard to give from emptiness.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just… — Jennifer James Copy Share
The first half of our lives is spoiled by our parents, and the last half by our children. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“I stuck my finger in his belly button and squiggled it around. “Belly button rape!” — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them… — Jennifer James Copy Share
When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling.… — Jennifer James Copy Share
There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in… — Jennifer James Copy Share
Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
