Jenni's Quotes

#1. She'd been questioning Jenni's sanity for a while now, but then again, they were all slightly insane now, weren't they?

Rhiannon Frater

#2. You wonder when it's going to get easier for us, but it's not easy for anybody, Allie. Everyone has their shit. It's different shit for different people, but it's still all shit. Being able to deal with it... that's where greatness lies. And we're great.

Jenni Moen

#3. I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

Jenni Olson

#4. Pause and remember: It is through our deepest trials and life hardships that we are given the greatest opportunity to find the person we have been looking for our whole life - our authentic beautiful self.

Jenni Young

#5. Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Jenni Rivera

#6. the worth of the soul is so much greater than what is first perceived. Equality and love for all became the founding basis

Jenni James

#7. We're blinded to our potential because we cannot see beyond our weakness.

Jenni Catron

#8. Wow," she said. "That's one sweet pussy tattoo. Only you could make that look manly.

Jenni Moen

#9. Living and being alive were two entirely different things

Jenni Moen

#10. Clowns are vicious
they're all nefarious grins
and if you hung out with a bunch of clowns in a bar, pretty soon it would turn into a horror movie. Nefarious means evil. It's nothing to do with Rastas.

Jenni Fagan

#11. My work is not for everyone, but I think if people give it a try, they may be surprised by how entertaining it is.

Jenni Olson

#12. I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

Jenni Rivera

#13. Wallowing in self-pity was only warranted on rainy, dismal days.

Jenni James

#14. I'm going to draw up a human-rights contract that says everyone on earth must agree we are here as caretakers of the planet, first and foremost.

Jenni Fagan

#15. The crux of the argument was that Jenni was a bloodthirsty psycho and would waste all of the ammo while Juan was too stupid to understand guns were made to be fired.

Rhiannon Frater

#16. While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over the years that it has become much easier.

Jenni Olson

#17. My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.

Jenni Rivera

#18. Stop helping everyone else make their films, and enlist them to help you make yours. This is an exaggeration, but the point is - you are the one person who cares the most about your project, so you have to take the leadership in driving it forward.

Jenni Olson

#19. My ass is big because a lot of people have to kiss it.

Jenni Rivera

#20. When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

Jenni Rivera

#21. I didn't have a heart until I meet you.
That smile is killin me too.
I can't look away.
Can I always stay?
I can't look away.
I need to stay.
I didn't have a heart until I meet you.

Jenni James

#22. I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed (17)

Jenni Schaefer

#23. He followed her lead quick enough,and they were soon swaying together, allowing the moment and their hearts to heal what the other could not

Jenni James

#24. Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.

Jenni Rivera

#25. Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

Jenni Schaefer

#26. I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

Jenni Rivera

#27. The fear of not measuring up robs us of seeing the value in our influence, and it keeps us on a perpetual quest to be better than others.

Jenni Catron

#28. Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

Jenni Rivera

#29. I want people to have a new way of looking at the world when they leave the theater.

Jenni Olson

#30. We never told on each other. That was an unspoken rule.

Jenni Rivera

#31. I definitely find the technical aspects of post-production generally quite overwhelming.

Jenni Olson

#32. Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [ ... ] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.

Jenni Schaefer

#33. He had to do so, because he learned through the lesson of petals and thorns and a pretty girl that you are only worth how good your soul truly is.

Jenni James

#34. God's gifts are free because His love is pure. - Jenni Davenport

Gary Chapman

#35. During the meeting, Jenni paid attention only when they talked about killing zombies.

Rhiannon Frater

#36. My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

Jenni Rivera

#37. It doesn't bother me at all that some people think I am too outspoken.

Jenni Rivera

#38. Seek the good in life and life will be good to you.

Jenni Young

#39. Grace of the Almighty, the Truth you can withstand all, the Hope life will get better, Love over everything, Peace which dwells within, Joy at life and all her ups and downs, and Brave - the ability to face it all without fear.

Jenni James

#40. I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

Jenni Rivera

#41. Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.

Jenni Rivera

#42. Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

Jenni Rivera

#43. I'm not good for you, Allie," he whispered. "And you aren't good for me.

Jenni Moen

#44. The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

Jenni Rivera

#45. Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

Jenni Schaefer

#46. Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

Jenni Schaefer

#47. With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Jenni Schaefer

#48. Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right - and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.

Jenni Schaefer

#49. [ ... ] You didn't think I'd let the backstabbing little hussy get away with it, did you? Not that I don't love Jenni, but she's the baby of the family, and she thinks she should get anything and everything she wants. Occasionally she has to be shown differently.

Linda Howard

#50. It's all because of you. Your bravery, your zest for life, your ability to shake off the negative. You are radiant now because you chose to be happy and forgive your past.

Jenni James

#51. Pause and remember - When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to move forward. - Jenni Young

Bryant McGill

#52. Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

Jenni Schaefer

#53. Playboy offered me a lot to do their mag but I'm not even the sort to go topless on the beach.

Jenni Falconer

#54. I'm a dead end, Adam." And at that moment, that was exactly how I felt inside ... a dead end.

Jenni Moen

#55. You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.

Jenni Rivera

#56. As while other passions in your life may, at some point, begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

Jenni Ferrari-Adler

#57. I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

Jenni Rivera

#58. Pride is like a facade on the exterior of our souls.

Jenni Catron

#59. I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

Jenni Rivera

#60. Desperate people do foolish things, don't be one of them.

Jenni Young

#61. Emerson once said, "The difference between a hero and a regular man is that a hero was braver five minutes longer.

Jenni Pulos

#62. He sincerely was beautiful.His smile,his wit,his friendliness and ease,his laughter-they all exuded such beauty.How could one look at him and not think him wonderful?

Jenni James

#63. Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it's not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. (127)

Jenni Schaefer

#64. When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.

Jenni Rivera

#65. I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.

Jenni Schaefer

#66. Alexis, I would have sent balloons but we agreed ... no strings. Adam

Jenni Moen

#67. Never underestimate the value of the ministry you have in the place where God has called you - even if it's "only" among your family and friends. - Jenni Davenport -

Gary Chapman

#68. I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.

Jenni Rivera

#69. Never be daunted in public' was an early Hemingway phrase that had more than once bolstered me in my timid twenties. I changed it resolutely to 'Never be daunted in private'.
- M.F.K. Fisher A Is for Dining Alone

Jenni Ferrari-Adler

#70. The key to success in life is getting up early.

Jenni Rivera

#71. The pathogen-free pig is considered a possible candidate,

Jenni Ogden

#72. Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

Jenni Olson

#73. Friendship includes talking others off their ledges, and letting them talk you off yours. - Jenni Davenport

Gary Chapman

#74. Interesting. Why would I tell him to call me 'Allie'? I was pretty sure that girl didn't even exist any more.

Jenni Moen

#75. Her fingers gripped my back. I knew that there would be marks, but I didn't care. She could leave her mark. I wanted her to. No one else would ever touch me again. No one else would ever touch her. I wanted to mark her for myself.

Jenni Moen

#76. She groaned and closed those eyes. "Do not look at me like that. You will make me smile, and I refuse to smile when I am attempting to stay mad at you.

Jenni James

#77. I am the same as the public as my fans.

Jenni Rivera

#78. I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.

Jenni Rivera

#79. When you feel like you would rather die than live another day with an eating disorder, know that I used to feel that way too. Search deep inside yourself for the part that wants to live,

Jenni Schaefer

#80. Say it, forget it; write it, regret it," my mother had always said.

Jenni Moen

#81. Life isn't about trying to conform to someone else's idea of what you should be. Life is about being true to yourself, and kind to all those who aren't quite ready to be true to themselves yet." "I

Jenni James

#82. Everyone has their shit. It's different shit for different people, but it's still all shit. Being able to deal with it ... that's where greatness lies.

Jenni Moen

#83. Happiness is knowing those you love not only feel your love, but understand that love is unconditional.

Jenni Boyd

#84. Well," Jenni said with a wry smile, "at least we live in Texas, where people actually own guns and hunt.

Rhiannon Frater

#85. I choose when to die

Rhiannon Frater

#86. Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

Andrew Motion

#87. I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

Jenni Rivera

#88. ...the child of a wolf may not feel like she has fangs until she finds herself facing the moon, but they are still there the whole time regardless.

Jenni Fagan

#89. What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.

Jenni Ferrari-Adler

#90. I think I most definitely need a kiss.'
'Rumple!'She came up enough to see his mischievous eyes.
'What?'He blinked.'A man can dream,can he not?

Jenni James

#91. We're meals on wheels," Jenni said with a bitter laugh. "Chewy center is what it's all about," Katie said gloomily.

Rhiannon Frater

#92. Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Jenni Schaefer

#93. I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman ... it amazes me still.

Jenni Rivera

#94. I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.

Jenni Rivera

#95. Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

Jenni Rivera

#96. Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Jenni Schaefer

#97. Now he knows something he did not know before - there is a totality to silence. It makes his bones ache.

Jenni Fagan

#98. I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.

Jenni Schaefer

#99. No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

Jenni Rivera

#100. I'd given her my heart, and she'd given it back. Trouble was, I didn't want it. I had no need for it if it wasn't connected to her.

Jenni Moen