"Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering……" — Justina Chen
"Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee." Cup coffee?" Taste it." What? Are you the coffee police or something?"
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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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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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Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
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When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior.…
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Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.
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