Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 31

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Confucius
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Confucius
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Confucius
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.
Xiaolu Guo
In the end,The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go.
Lao Tzu
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Ming-Dao Deng
The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.
Marie Lu
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
Marie Lu
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
Lin Yutang
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Lisa See
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
Confucius
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Lao Tzu
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
Marie Lu
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.
Lao Tzu
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.
Lisa See
Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.
Marie Lu
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
Lao Tzu
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius
Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools.
Marie Lu
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
Francis Chan
LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love.
Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know."A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.
Marie Lu
He is beauty, inside and out.He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.He is my light.
Marie Lu
Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.
Marie Lu
Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
Marie Lu