"My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully……" — Justina Chen
"My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither."
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51 Quotes by Justina Chen
Justina Chen has 51 quotes on this site.
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You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.
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Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken,…
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Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.
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To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.
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That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.
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Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you…
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Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.
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Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?
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I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no…
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Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled…
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Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do…
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Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.
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More Carefully Quotes
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not…
— Margaret Atwood
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
— Richard Bach
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My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for…
— Javier Bardem
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am…
— Josh Billings
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his…
— Hugo Black
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental…
— Alex Campbell
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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more…
— George Washington Carver
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