Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.
People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.
May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.
Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love--true-heart love--must grow.
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?
Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.
When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again. Page 210
When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love
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