Minh Anh

“The time had come to embrace the ups and downs again. I had no way of knowing what pitfalls might be lying in wait for me, but what I’d discovered by doing five jobs in such a short span of time was this: the same was true of everything. You never knew what was going to happen, whatever you did. You just had to give it your all, and hope for the best. Hope like anything it would turn out alright.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“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

“The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it.”
― Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

“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