Minh Anh

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. —James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
― Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

“My thinking has always been that if love, marriage, and family were intrinsically so meaningful, so exceptional, and so necessary, then we wouldn't need millennia of propaganda selling them to us.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“We as an English-speaking people can't not eat our dead— our language loves a cannibal. We don't just win at sports, we kill the other team; we demolish them; we devour our opponents. To express a baby's cuteness, we say we could eat her up.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“We must cultivate all three intelligences for our overall health: critical intelligence, emotional intelligence, and spiritual intelligence. If one falls to the wayside, it slows the growth of the other two.
If you have developed critical intelligence but neglected emotional intelligence, then you may not be sensitive to the suffering of others.
If you have developed emotional intelligence but neglected spiritual intelligence, then you may lose hope after seeing the world's suffering.
If you have developed spiritual intelligence but neglected critical intelligence, then you may fall victim to the abuse of a cult.”
― Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World