He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams. Justina Chen More Quotes by Justina Chen More Quotes From Justina Chen Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better. Justina Chen life-is-good coffee adventure You raze the old to raise the new. Justina Chen happy-new-year-inspirational new-beginnings raises 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 would-be forever [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 opposites blue 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 over-you creative honor Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too. Justina Chen forgiving stupid remember Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring. Justina Chen getting-lost way travel 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 mirrors self-esteem reflection You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you. Justina Chen would-be exercise two To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope. Justina Chen north-of-beautiful doubt dream Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee? Justina Chen north-of-beautiful smell coffee 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 our-actions real attitude I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful. Justina Chen mind beautiful travel Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last. Justina Chen hey lasts philosophy You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself. Justina Chen north-of-beautiful 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 get-well-soon flower sorry 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-north true-beauty ugly 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. Justina Chen keys reading practice I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling? Justina Chen dad eggs firsts 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 speak class teacher
