Justina Chen Quotes

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• Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

  Justina Chen

  Coffee, Adventure, Life Is Good

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• [True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.

  Justina Chen

  Glasses, Blue, Opposites

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• You raze the old to raise the new.

  Justina Chen

  New Beginnings, Happy New Year Inspirational, Raises

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• To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

  Justina Chen

  Dream, Doubt, North Of Beautiful

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• Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

  Justina Chen

  Coffee, Smell, North Of Beautiful

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• Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

  Justina Chen

  Attitude, Real, Our Actions

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• When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

  Justina Chen

  Creative, Over You, Honor

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• Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

  Justina Chen

  Stupid, Forgiving, Remember

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• Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

  Justina Chen

  Travel, Getting Lost, Way

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• There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.

  Justina Chen

  Decision, Forever, Would Be

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• What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

  Justina Chen

  Self Esteem, Reflection, Mirrors

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• You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

  Justina Chen

  Exercise, Two, Would Be

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• He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

  Justina Chen

  Relationship, Dream, Shapes

  Justina Chen (2009). “North of Beautiful”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

  Justina Chen

  Beautiful, Travel, Mind

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• Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

  Justina Chen

  Philosophy, Hey, Lasts

  Justina Chen (2009). “North of Beautiful”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.

  Justina Chen

  Sorry, Get Well Soon, Flower

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• You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

  Justina Chen

  North Of Beautiful

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• Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

  Justina Chen

  True Beauty, Ugly, True North

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• What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

  Justina Chen

  Gratitude, Self, Mutual

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• The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.

  Justina Chen

  Girl, Falling In Love, Sweaters

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• There is real comfort in being quiet.

  Justina Chen

  Real, Comfort, Quiet

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• Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

  Justina Chen

  Teacher, Class, Speak

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• But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

  Justina Chen

  Different, May, Fruit

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• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

  Justina Chen

  Broken, Accepting What Is, Complaining

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• No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

  Justina Chen

  Absolutes, Permanent

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