yen

“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

“You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“Impermanence can also be a gift. Create nothing lasting. Leave nothing behind. Live for the present. In beauty, until it ends." Jacques exhaled smoke thoughtfully. "In Latin, cadere means to fall: It's the root of 'decadent.' Not as we think of the word now, but a beautiful way to fall. A slow fall, willingly. Like fashion. It never lasts, but for the time it's there, the beauty of it is something we'd die for, though we can never hold on to it.”
― C. W. Gortner

“We live in a culture where some of us are held to impossible standards...But all of us deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, even if we are not extraordinary. Even if we are not perfect.”
― Julia Lee