Khang Kijarro Nguyen Quotes

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.

A house built with integrity will endure and so will a company.

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

Chronic depression is the emotional compound interest paid on the inability to let go of an unrequited love.

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

We are master alchemists: We may not have discovered how to make gold out of lead, but we are able to make heaven out of hell, hell out of heaven, and purgatory out of nothing.

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

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

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

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.

The candy colored coral snake.
The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.
Décolletage.
Beware of conspicuous beauty.
Its venom can be deadly.

Sometimes people are boring not because they are boring but because they want to get rid of the person they are talking to.

The voyage of a lifetime starts at the windowsill.

The most impregnable wall invisibly divides you from yourself.

To find perfectly ripe fruit, catch it.

A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.

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

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

Tears wash away the soot of indifference.

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

What did one mirror see in the other?
Nothing.

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

To find perfect ripeness, catch it.

Don't count your eggs before they hatch unless they're laid by Fabergé.

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.

To feel common after a common cold is quite uncommon.

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

To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.

Turn your back on the love you have for someone who has turned his back on you.

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

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

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

Do precedes done.
No precedes none.

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

Perfection can hide a lot of warts.

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

Many people are afraid of diving deep into a relationship but they are also afraid of leaving it which leaves them in a relationship purgatory.

Passion without perseverance
is fire without fuel.

Identical twins do not possess identical souls.

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?

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

Cookies used to cause cavities only in our teeth.
Now they also cause cavities in our privacy.

Be alone with the sea for it is there you will find answers to questions you didn't realize existed.

Being alone is not synonymous with incompleteness.
Having a partner is not a precondition for completeness.

Aim not for the target.
Aim to hit the target.

Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.

Sometimes happiness comes not from what happens but from what doesn't.

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

Emotional baggage is like the dead skin of a snake. If you don't shed it, how can you grow emotionally?

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

Perfection can mask imperfection.

Emotional scars run deeper than the Nile
and often lie lurking behind a smile.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

To make robots practical, flaws must be removed.
To make robots endearing, flaws must be added.

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

Taming an imagination that has run wild is sometimes necessary for publication
and sometimes the opposite is true.

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

If you pay attention to your ranking and comparison to others, you are competing with others.
If you ignore them, you can aim for the stars.

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

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

You can spend your whole life traveling around the world searching for the Garden of Eden, or you can create it in your backyard.

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

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

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

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies,
a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

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

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

A virus has neither pride nor prejudice.
It's an equal opportunity infector.

Sometimes more is hidden behind a truth than a pack of lies.

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.

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

The desire to help others is not necessarily incompatible with the desire to help oneself.

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

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