Justina Chen Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

You raze the old to raise the new.

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

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

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

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

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.

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.

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

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?

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

Silence, too, can be torture.

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

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

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

You don't need a geochache for this one." "You don't, huh?" "Nope.. here I am. Here I am.

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

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.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

There is real comfort in being quiet.

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

how many times had I begged Mom to divorce him already?

North-ish." A pause, and then: "Is that Terra for I'm lost-ish?

Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

Progress is hard on history.