Minh Anh
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Sometimes I wondered if the ashes were really hers—I needed to touch and see for myself, to destroy the dream that my daughter was still alive.
“My thinking has always been that if love, marriage, and family were intrinsically so meaningful, so exceptional, and so necessary, then we wouldn't need millennia of propaganda selling them to us.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“We as an English-speaking people can't not eat our dead— our language loves a cannibal. We don't just win at sports, we kill the other team; we demolish them; we devour our opponents. To express a baby's cuteness, we say we could eat her up.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“It is one story among many. Every bone tells a life. Every person lost was a world.”
― Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
― Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
“Historically, the people who bring about change in society tend not to be the middle-aged but the passionate youth. Their hearts are sensitive to the plight of the oppressed. Their spirits stand tall against injustice and fight for the voiceless. Hold on to that youthful heart and spirit no matter how old you are.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
“We must cultivate all three intelligences for our overall health: critical intelligence, emotional intelligence, and spiritual intelligence. If one falls to the wayside, it slows the growth of the other two.
If you have developed critical intelligence but neglected emotional intelligence, then you may not be sensitive to the suffering of others.
If you have developed emotional intelligence but neglected spiritual intelligence, then you may lose hope after seeing the world's suffering.
If you have developed spiritual intelligence but neglected critical intelligence, then you may fall victim to the abuse of a cult.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
If you have developed critical intelligence but neglected emotional intelligence, then you may not be sensitive to the suffering of others.
If you have developed emotional intelligence but neglected spiritual intelligence, then you may lose hope after seeing the world's suffering.
If you have developed spiritual intelligence but neglected critical intelligence, then you may fall victim to the abuse of a cult.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
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