Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart an... by Justina Chen

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

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Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better. by Justina Chen

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

life-is-good coffee adventure

You raze the old to raise the new. by Justina Chen

You raze the old to raise the new.

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.

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.

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.

over-you creative honor

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stu... by Justina Chen

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

forgiving stupid remember

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

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

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?

mirrors self-esteem reflection

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

would-be exercise two

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my f... by Justina Chen

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

shapes dream relationship

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope. by Justina Chen

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

north-of-beautiful doubt dream

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

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

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.

our-actions real attitude

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

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

mind beautiful travel

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live... by Justina Chen

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

hey lasts philosophy

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself. by Justina Chen

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

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.

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.

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.

keys reading practice

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

dad eggs firsts