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Elizabeth Kim

Elizabeth Kim Biography

Journalist

Elizabeth Kim, born in 1954, is an accomplished journalist. Her career spans various fields, including political, social, and cultural reporting. Kim is known for her in-depth investigations and keen insights, with her reports often revealing social injustices and abuses of power.

Elizabeth Kim, born in 1954, is an accomplished journalist. Her career spans various fields, including political, social, and cultural reporting. Kim is known for her in-depth investigations and keen insights, with her reports often revealing social injustices and abuses of power.

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“People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase, maybe because I was told countless times during my growing-up years that I was "just like an animal." I had suffered much of my life because I was considered less than human. Animals were suffering because they were less than human. And it seemed to me that human didn't have much to be proud of, if they treated other living things with such blind cruelty.”

Compassion Empathy Vegetarianism Compassion For Animals

Book:Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

Source: Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

“I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.”

Peace Letting Go Acceptance Self Love

Book:Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

Source: Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

“I think that any loving act, even if it's only momentary, has a limitless power for good. A big part of the reason I feel that way is the memory I have of him.”

Book:Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

Source: Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

“The fear and anxiety of baring my soul is transcended by the thrill and honor and wonderfulness of being able to touch and affect so many people... having people look into my mind, my imagination... into my heart and soul.”

People Mind Looks Heart Soul Able Imagination My Heart Honor Anxiety My Soul Thrill My Imagination Heart And Soul

Author:Elizabeth Kim

“When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.”

Writing Heart Done Effort Fantasy My Heart Conscious Inspired Flight

Author:Elizabeth Kim

“Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.”

“My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.”

Ifs Way Writing Believe Heart Philosophy Might I Believe Sound Successful My Heart One Way Being Successful Old Fashioned Follow Your Heart

Author:Elizabeth Kim

“I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.”

Sometimes Attention Careers Appreciate Honored Overwhelmed Loner Appreciative Secluded

Author:Elizabeth Kim

“We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.”

Earth Fall Tree Falling In Love Someday Ashes Leafs Crushed Obsolete Becoming Obsolete

Author:Elizabeth Kim

“We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.”

Joy Struggle Our Lives Sorrow Thousand Ten

Book:Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

Source: Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

“I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.”

Feelings Young Found Easy Natural Emotion Fantasy Written Horror Fierce Thoughts And Feelings Written Word

Author:Elizabeth Kim

“I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.”

Feels Reason Heaven Existence Hell Walking Various Contradiction Heaven And Hell Walking Away Epitome

Author:Elizabeth Kim

“I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.”

Pain Past Reading Kindness I Realized Loving Life Past Present Past Present And Future Loving Kindness Lama Dalai

Book:Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

Source: Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

“It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.”

World Writing Dark Alive Normal Caught Tombs

Author:Elizabeth Kim

“My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.”

“Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.”

May Eternal Profound Nothingness Profound Thoughts

Author:Elizabeth Kim

About the Author

Born: 1954
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 16

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