Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces… — 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… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
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… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
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,… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
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
The impression is that love is something that happens to you like magic. That love is something others do for you, but that you… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
There is no way to live up to your full potential in life without losing lots of things. Yet there are people who believe… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
