Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 10

If you don't want anyone to know it don't do it.
Chinese Proverb
If you’d rather watch your kids grow up than see the face of your Savior today, you don’t grasp the beauty of God. If you worry about what would happen to your children if you were gone, you don’t understand the providence of God.
Francis Chan
I don't know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.
Ma Jian
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.
Ma Jian
We are scared to make mistakes, so we fret over figuring out God’s will. We wonder what living according to His will would actually look and feel like, and we are scared to find out. We forget that we were never promised a 20-year plan of action; instead, God promises multiple times in Scripture never to leave or forsake us. God wants us to listen to His Spirit on a daily basis, and even throughout the day … My hope is that instead of searching for “God’s will for my life,” each of us would learnt to seek hard after “the Spirit’s leading in my life today.
Francis Chan
In the end,The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go.
Lao Tzu
It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.
Pearl Zhu
Better be too credulous than too skeptical
Chinese Proverb
Cut off entanglements.Get rid of anger and hatred.Do not be afraid of hard work.Tolerate ignominy and endure dishonor.Forgive people and defer to others.Take possessions lightly; take life seriously.View others and self as the same.Do whatever you can to be helpful.Practice developing virtue is the greatest priority; when achievement is great and practice profound, it moves heaven and earth.Ridiculous are the foolish ones who only profit themselves; with no achievement and little action, they dream of becoming immortals.
Liu Yiming
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.
I.M. Pei
Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine
Lao Tzu
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.
Ming-Dao Deng
Blossom time, drunk together, banishing spring sorrow;drunk, we broke off flowering limbs, counters for our rounds of wine.Suddenly I remembered my old friend, gone to the edge of the sky:by my reckoning, today he must have reached Liang-chou.
Bai Juyi
Time is the cruelest force of all.
Cixin Liu
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius
Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed to possess the power of gods; but in the end, the real power was wielded by time.
Liu Cixin
A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain.
Marie Lu
Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum.
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.
Chinese Proverb
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighbourhood. From this prison there is no escape. But the moment he takes up a book, he immediately enters a different world, and if it is a good book, he is immediately put in touch with one of the best talkers of the world. This talker leads him on and carries him into a different country or a different age, or unburdens to him some of his personal regrets, or discusses with him some special line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about. An ancient author puts him in communion with a dead spirit of long ago, and as he reads along, he begins to imagine what the ancient author looked like and what type of person he was.
Lin Yutang
Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
[S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.
Gene Luen Yang
Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.
Pearl Zhu
The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.
Sun Tzu
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.
Sherry Thomas
There's a simplicity and a sense of adventure to being alone, and I sometimes envy you for having it, as you explore Paris. Even when you're getting your heart broken, you can still wake up and not know what's going to happen next.
Jessica Pan
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can understand each other's past. We Chinese have been collective for so long, personal histories are not worth mentioning. Therefore as soon as Xiaolin and I knew how old the other was, we knew exactly what big shit had happened in our lives. The introduction of the One Child Policy shortly before out births, for instance and the fact that, in 1985, two pandas were sent to the USA as a national gift and we had to sing a tearful panda song at school. 1989 was the Tiananmen Square student demonstration. Anyway, Xiaolin was one year younger than me, so I assumed we were from the same generation.
Xiaolu Guo
Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.
Lao Tzu
We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?""Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
Sherry Thomas
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Chuang-tzu
The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.
Marie Lu
My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an outsider. One day, when she ventured some critical comments about the situation and got no response from him, she said bitterly, "You are a good Communist, but a rotten husband!" My father nodded. He said he knew.
Jung Chang
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.
Ming-Dao Deng
Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.
Pearl Zhu
The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
Lao Tzu
If you never persisted, you will never succeed.
Vann Chow
American children hear no stories about ghosts. They spend a dime at the drugstore to buy a Superman comic book...Superman represents actual capabilities or future potential, while ghosts symbolize belief in and reverence for the accumulated past...How could ghosts gain a foothold in American cities? People move about like the tide, unable to form permanent ties with places, still less with other people...In a world without ghosts, life is free and easy. American eyes can gaze straight ahead. But still I think they lack something and I do not envy their life.
Fei Xiaotong
Chuang-tzu once told a story about two persons who both lost a sheep. One person got very depressed and lost himself in drinking, sex, and gambling to try to forget this misfortune. The other person decided that this would be an excellent chance for him to study the classics and quietly observe the subtleties of nature. Both men experience the same misfortune, but one man lost himself because he was too attached to the experience of loss, while the other found himself because he was able to let go of gain and loss.
Liezi
Let us take our tongues and stick them out and waggle them in the wind. Let us walk, loving, let us walk and love, walking along, loving.
Meia Geddes
Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
Pearl Zhu
The king is dead. Long live the queen.
Marie Lu
So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.
Lao Tzu
A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
Liu Cixin
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?
Sengcan
Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end,” a philosophy and mindset at board level.
Pearl Zhu
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
Cao Yu
The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.
Zhuangzi
I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
Marie Lu
Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
Marie Lu
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.
Zhuangzi
Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.
Francis Chan
Like a great ship, this season has run aground. Dawn and dusk alternate at an old man's pace. I live alone in an area known as the 'Waterside', writing a book akin to the Revelations of St. John.
Ge Fei
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.
Pearl Zhu