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Jennifer James

"The impression is that love is something that happens to you like magic. That love is something others do for you, but that you cannot do for yourself. Love is not something you wait for. Love doesn't just happen. Love is something you do. When you want love, give love. Moment to moment, you make the choice whether to give love and be loved."

Source : Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

Jennifer James

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“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnâ€™t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?”
“There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.”
“The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush,”

Source : "Handshake With Obama Belies Chavez's Contempt for America", www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2005.
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
“The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.”
“It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.”
“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”

Source : "Sermons" by Laurence Sterne, vol. I, No. 12, 1760.
“You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.”

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