Vannary Kim Quotes & Sayings

Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it. — Barbara Kingsolver

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes

Falling in love? First make sure that you passed a hardcore military training of emotions. — Ameya Agrawal

One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh. — Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes when you are standing still and it's snowing, you think that you hear music. You can't tell where it's coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we can't hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat. — Heather O'Neill

Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time - that is the basic message. — Pema Chodron