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I’d been treated as little more than an animal and barely survived at the very bottom rung of society. At one point, I’d even tried to end my life to escape my miserable existence here. So why was I crying?
When happiness is said to come from within then why does outer situations affect people so severely? i belive we are more connected to each other and others energy can change our own.
“The impact was so powerful, I finally understood why my father feared this story would overwhelm me. It forced me to question whether I could finish documenting his journey. Was the nightmare some sort of a warning over my own mental state? What would happen if the nightmare returned? How many could I endure and still stay on the project?”
― Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
― Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
“When you stop making yourself wrong for how you’re feeling, you’ll immediately feel better.”
― The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit
― The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit
“How can foreign strangers love us like this? I wondered, touched by their affection. In this way our arrival in America was warm, amid the loving protection of total strangers.”
― Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
― Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
“not everyone was happy Papa had scraped together savings to build a house “out near the lake,” as her once-friend Rose had put it, as if lake water and comfort were a betrayal. By the time the Klan burned down their unfinished house,”
― The Reformatory
― The Reformatory
“president once remarked after the fall of Saigon that, “History will judge whether we [Americans] could have done better.” Undoubtedly, that judge in history could only wish that more was made today of your selfless charity and lionhearted compassion. And it shall here. Thank you for following your heart and instinct by putting “humanity ahead of politics.” You are legends.”
― Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
― Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
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