Khang Kijarro Nguyen Quotes

#1. A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.

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#2. Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.
Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.
Presoak it in dance, music and art.

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#3. If you follow a recipe for life, spontaneity will be cooked.

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#4. If you run out of dough, all you knead is love.

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#5. The truth is inelastic.
A lie is infinitely elastic.

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#6. In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.

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#7. Start a rumor about
peace taking over,
love being the new black,
and compassion going viral.

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#8. Every atom in your body spins and dances
like a bee around the queen,
like a whirling dervish,
like the stars spiraling in a galaxy.
Yet why do you sit motionlessly watching Dancing With the Stars?

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#9. Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you're a Smurf.

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#10. The tastiest berries are often hidden.
Do not despair if you haven't found true love.
Look under the leaves and branches of convention.

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#11. Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

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#12. Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris.

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#13. If the present is left unopened,
now, it is closed.

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#14. Monoculture is mono for the earth.

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#15. Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.

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#16. Take a detour.
Discover small towns
and friendly faces
that don't grow along the highway.

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#17. Hate is like zero because true love is not divisible by hate.

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#18. To find perfect ripeness, catch it.

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#19. Why age chronologically when you can age in reverse order?

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#20. Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles.

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#21. Abled does not mean enabled.
Disabled does not mean less abled.

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#22. When you fall in love,
do not fall out of yourself.

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#23. Stress is a dragon.
Believe in it and you're toast.
Slay your stress.

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#24. Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.

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#25. Do precedes done.
No precedes none.

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#26. If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you.

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#27. Shed the tears.
Shed the blame and guilt too.
So that your heart mends and heals.

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#28. In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Mute Cyclops is the Eunuch King.

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#29. Hear not fear.
Fear not here.

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#30. Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

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#31. Amnesia of both past failure and success is the best way forward.

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#32. We only invented the word organic because we made things inorganic.
We only invented the word natural because we made things unnatural.
We only invented the word permaculture because we made agriculture.

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#33. To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.

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#34. Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

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#35. To find perfectly ripe fruit, catch it.

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#36. If you lend the present,
it will never be returned.

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#37. One man's distraction is another man's refuge.

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#38. Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness.

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#39. Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

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#40. Tears wash away the soot of indifference.

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#41. She walks in beauty.
I am trampled by it.
She swims in beauty.
I drown in it.

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#42. Having rebound sex to cure a heartbreak is like drinking alcohol to cure a hangover.

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#43. Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.

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#44. The voyage of a lifetime starts at the windowsill.

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#45. The most impregnable wall invisibly divides you from yourself.

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#46. To enter your true self,
check your ego at the door.

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#47. The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror.

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#48. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete.

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#49. History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

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#50. Perfection can be a mask for imperfection.

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#51. If you wait for the weekend to live,
you're not living 71% of your life.

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#52. Identical twins do not possess identical souls.

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#53. A stethoscope hears not the beating of a heart's desire.

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#54. Passion without perseverance
is fire without fuel.

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#55. Behold
the azure sea in front of you,
the turquoise sky above you,
the amber mountain beneath your feet,
and the golden daisy in your hands.
How are you not the richest person on earth?

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#56. Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.

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#57. You can say nothing by saying everything.
You can say everything by saying nothing.

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#58. When you eat too much chocolate, you get sick of it.
When you drink too much champagne, you get sick of it.
Gorge yourself on fear.

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#59. If nostalgia holds you hostage,
the ransom is the present.

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#60. Perfection can mask imperfection.

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#61. Behind every one of Michael Jordan's heart stopping buzzer beating spine scintillating game winning shots, lie the corpses of a thousand missed childhood driveway shots.

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#62. Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

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#63. If being grounded is important, stay away from Prince Charming because he will sweep you off your feet.

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#64. Blaming the ex for the breakup is like blaming the clothes for not fitting you.

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#65. If you lock the door on sorrow,
how will it leave your heart?

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#66. What did one mirror see in the other?
Nothing.

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#67. Roll in the snow.
Shower in the rain.
Bask in the sun.
Weatherproof your soul.

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#68. It's precarious to hang onto the veracity of memory because its edges are smoothed by the river of time.

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#69. Perfection can hide a lot of warts.

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#70. A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.

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#71. To feel common after a common cold is quite uncommon.

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#72. An alluring woman
need not bat an eyelash
to hit a homer
and steal a man's heart.

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#73. Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.
Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.

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#74. If you fatally kill fate,
your life sentence will be
to steer the reins of choice.

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#75. Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.

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#76. At the blind date,
deafen your ears
to hear the words
spoken with her eyes.

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