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 JamesThe 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.
Jennifer JamesThere are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.
Jennifer JamesYou can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.
Jennifer JamesThere is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.
Jennifer JamesWhen 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. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.
Jennifer James