It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way. Jennifer James More Quotes by Jennifer James More Quotes From Jennifer James The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too. Jennifer James grief law mind You are much more than the sum of what you produce. Jennifer James produce 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. . . . People who avoid self-knowledge cause a great deal of pain to themselves as well as to their families and friends. Jennifer James pain self people Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. Jennifer James envy jealousy pain There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world. Jennifer James consistency passion world There is no way to live up to your full potential in life without losing lots of things. Yet there are people who believe you can go through a lifetime without losing anything, if you would just be more careful and more thoughtful. They actually believe that a child can get through elementary school without losing a jacket, but that's impossible unless the child is very repressed. Jennifer James believe children school You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard. Jennifer James leisure speed want Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar. Jennifer James intuition vision mind Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable. Jennifer James enlightenment able home Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there. Jennifer James hurt names people Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us. Jennifer James twenties skills change 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 to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength. Jennifer James kindness peace children 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. You'll feel so good you won't care. Jennifer James good-life crazy revenge What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice? Jennifer James optimistic views children People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago. Jennifer James long-ago people thinking
