In her world, the law was upside down. People had to break the law to live. The prohibition on drug-dealing, a serious crime in most countries, is not viewed in the same way — as protective of society — by North Koreans. It is viewed as a risk, like unauthorized parking. If you can get away with it, where’s the harm? Hyeonseo Lee
My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.
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Katerina Stoykova Klemer
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is...
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Felix Adler
It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
Your soul is your sacred self.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom
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Kamaran Ihsan Salih
More Quotes By Hyeonseo Lee
This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything — our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.
Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.
I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.
In her world, the law was upside down. People had to break the law to live. The prohibition on drug-dealing, a serious crime in most countries, is not viewed in the same way — as protective of society — by North Koreans. It is viewed...
I wanted to belong, like everyone else around me did, but there was no country I could say was mine. I had no one to tell me that many other people in the world have a fragmented identity; that it doesn’t matter. That who we...
