Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 28

In worthy teaching, all things are related.
Confucius
To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.
Confucius
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability.
Confucius
If you want to make a stand, help others make a stand, and if you want to reach your goal, help others reach their goal. Consider yourself and treat others accordingly: this is the method of Humanity.
Confucius
You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
Sun Tzu
If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang
Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.
Confucius
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
Sherry Thomas
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.
Ken Liu
Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.
Pearl Zhu
The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.
Watchman Nee
In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.
Lao Tzu
Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds.
Pearl Zhu
If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.
Confucius
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu
To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.
Lao Tzu
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu
Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.
Lao Tzu
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Confucius
There is no secret ingredient
Mr Ping
To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?
Confucius
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
Ha Jin
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Lisa See
We are the children of gods and angels.
Marie Lu
Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.
Jeff Chu
[at CMC West Coast 2011, on 1 Samuel 14] If just a few of you would step up and be like Jonathan ... as you step out in faith, you know what's going to happen? There'll be people like Saul who'll say, "God's doing something through that guy, God's doing something through that girl. I want to be a part of that.
Francis Chan
[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I serve enough this week?* When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks without guilt, worry or fear. As long as you are running, you're safe.
Francis Chan
True faith manifests itself through our actions.
Francis Chan
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.
Dai Sijie
the bouquetBetween me and the worldyou are a bay, a sailthe faithful ends of a ropeyou are a fountain, a wind, a shrill childhood cry.Between me and the worldyou are a picture frame, a windowa field covered in wildflowersyou are a breath, a bed,a night that keeps the stars company.Between me and the world, you are a calendar, a compassa ray of light that slips through the gloomyou are a biographical sketch, a book marka preface that comes at the end.between me and the worldyou are a gauze curtain, a mista lamp shining in my dreamsyou are a bamboo flute, a song without wordsa closed eyelid carved in stone.Between me and the worldyou are a chasm, a poolan abyss plunging downyou are a balustrade, a walla shield’s eternal pattern.
Bei Dao
I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I'd want you for what's in here.'Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body.
Lisa See
Memory revises me.
Li-Young Lee
The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.
Juefan Huihong
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
Li-Young Lee
Moonlight and high wind.Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.
Li-Young Lee
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.
Li-Young Lee
My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.The vein in my neckadores you. A swordstands up between my hips,my hidden fleece sends forth its scent of human oil.
Li-Young Lee
People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face
Adeline Yen Mah
A door jumpsout from shadows,then jumps away. Thisis what I've come to find:the back door, unlatched.Tooled by insular wind, itslams and slamswithout meaningto and without meaning.
Li-Young Lee
I am that last, thatfinal thing, the bodyin a white sheet listening,
Li-Young Lee
a bruise, bluein the muscle, youimpinge upon me.As bone hugs the ache home, soI'm vexed to love you, your bodythe shape of returns, your hair a torsoof light, your heatI must have, your openingI'd eat, each momentof that soft-finned fruit,inverted fountain in which I don't see me.
Li-Young Lee
A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick.
Lao Tzu
We suffer each other to have each other a while.
Li-Young Lee
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")
Xiao Hong
So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.
Zhuangzi
Everyone knows that part of the spirit descends to the afterworld, while part of it remains with the family, but we have a special belief about the spirit of a young woman who has died before her marriage that goes contrary to this. She comes back to prey upon other unmarried girls--not to scare them but to take them to the afterworld with her so she might have company.
Lisa See
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?
Lisa See
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living
Confucius
To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.
Marie Lu
Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.
Chinese Proverb
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu