Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 14

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
Confucius
For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
Lin Yutang
If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?
Confucius
There’s only one way to know if people are good or evil: look at the choices they make. We each contain precious and worthless, great and small. Never injure the great for the sake of the small, or the precious for the sake of the worthless. Small people nurture what is small in them; great people nurture what is great in them.
Mencius
The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.
Jamie Ford
The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.
Lao Tzu
We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.
Brother Yun
The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.
Zhuangzi
Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants you to think of him, the latter truly reflects who he is.
Betty Jamie Chung
The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.
Confucius
Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.
Pearl Zhu
I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?
Jean Kwok
My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.
Marie Lu
I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a good thing because heartbreak sucks way fucking more than acid reflux ever could.
Alexa Chung
What's the point of keeping in touch with the girl you're crazy about, when you're dying?
Marie Lu
Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.
Jamie Ford
Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!
Wu Cheng'en
At its core, Agile is a mindset.
Pearl Zhu
My pulses quicken. The thunderous sound of my heart beating fills my eardrums. I’m jealous of a dead girl. Why? Because I think I’m in love with her boyfriend.
Kat Lieu
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.
Tsung-Dao Lee
There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars.
Ken Liu
The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us.
Liu Cixin
The central thought of the Scriptures is that God intends to work Himself in Christ through the Spirit into us, that God and we, we and God, might be really one in life, in nature, and in the Spirit. To show this God uses several figures or symbols in the Bible.
Witness Lee
The experiences mentioned in this book are experiences in the Holy of Holies. This book gives a portrait of a person who is in the Holy of Holies. Paul and his co-workers were such persons. They had entered into the good land and were living in the spirit, experiencing Christ all the time. They were deep, even the deepest, in the experience of Christ.
Witness Lee
The Corinthians talked about spiritual things, but they did so in a fleshy and soulish way. The apostle Paul told them in the first book that they were fleshy and not spiritual (3:1), and in chapter 2 of the first book, he spoke of soulish men (v. 14). A spiritual man (v. 15) is one who does not behave according to the flesh or act according to the soulish life but lives according to the spirit, that is, his spirit (Rom. 1:9) mingled with the Spirit of God (8:16; 1 Cor. 6:17). Such a one is dominated, governed, directed, moved, and led by such a mingled spirit. Although the Corinthians spoke much about spiritual things, the apostle Paul designated them as fleshy and soulish. They were talking about spiritual things in the soul and in the flesh. Some may talk about the heavenly things in Ephesians, but they do so as Corinthians—in the soul or in the flesh.
Witness Lee
We need to be impressed with these words in verse [2 Cor. 1:]9—“we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God.” Through the redemption of Christ, the very God, who is in the heavens, has come into us, into our spirit (Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22). Thank the Lord that He is now in our spirit, calling us to forget about the soulish things and turn to our spirit to meet Him. We should no longer trust in our self, in our soul, but in God who is in our spirit.
Witness Lee
Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed
Ruth Bell Graham
[To] Immediately...turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God...practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.
Witness Lee
This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.
Witness Lee
Silence is a source of Great Strength.
Lao Tzu
If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly willgive him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.
Lin Yutang
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
Lin Yutang
But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country’s economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution, which was supposed to have liberated the forces of production and increased productivity. Of course, the Cultural Revolution had done just the opposite. Official lies like this, habitually indulged in and frequently displayed by the authorities, served no purpose except to create the impression that truth was unimportant. Pg. 400
Nien Cheng
You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.
Zhuangzi
In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to condemn what he takes to be no good, but no one knows enough to condemn what he has already taken to be good.
Zhuangzi
Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?
Zhuangzi
With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them. If I don't force things, at least I won't cause anyone any worry.
Zhuangzi
Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The greater the `other people` dimension, the greater our personal `greatness`.
Chairman Mao
Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape.
Marie Lu
She's pretty in a way that distracts me just like she did in the Skiz ring. No, pretty's not the right word. Beautiful.
Marie Lu
She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, easily the most breathtaking girl in the room.
Marie Lu
Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful.
Marie Lu
Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
Marie Lu
I see pieces of memories in his eyes. Pieces of us. They are broken, and scattered, but they are there, gradually coming together again at the sight of me.
Marie Lu
When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is different every time.
Xinran
But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.
Brian Castro
Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.
Hock G. Tjoa
Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
Mencius
The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.
Confucius
In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.
Shan Sa
I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.
Marie Lu
The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?
Yiyun Li
But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her.
Marie Lu
High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.
Pearl Zhu
Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind.
Pearl Zhu
Design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process, maybe even a strategic differentiator.
Pearl Zhu
The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.
Pearl Zhu
Strategic Thinking starts with the end in mind.
Pearl Zhu