Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 26

Dr. Xia was working as a salaried doctor attached to another man's medicine shop, which did not give him much chance to display his skill. But he worked had, and gradually his reputation began to grow. Soon he was invited to go on his first visit to a patient's home. When he came back that evening he was carrying a package wrapped in a cloth. He winked at my mother and his wife and asked them to guess what was inside the package. My mother's eyes was glued to the steaming bundle, and even before she could shout out "Steamed rolls!" she was already tearing the package open. As she was devouring the rolls, she looked up and met Dr. Xia's twinkling eyes. More than fifty years later she can still remember his look of happiness, and even today she says she can remember any food as delicious as those simple wheat rolls.
Jung Chang
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
Lao Tzu
She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.
Sherry Thomas
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Lisa See
June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.
Marie Lu
Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.
Sherry Thomas
Hope can get you through anything.
Jamie Ford
Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.
Ma Jian
Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.
Pearl Zhu
The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivery, the quality of information for decision making, and the wisdom of digital workforce.
Pearl Zhu
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
Jet Li
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
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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
Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.
Marie Lu
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
Zhuangzi
I have earned my revenge on everyone who hurt me. My father, who tortured me every day - I crushed his chest and his heart. Teren, sick and twisted and mad - I took away his beloved just as he took away mine. Raffaele, who betrayed and manipulated me - I seized control of the prince he loves, and I made sure he watched his prince destroy in my name. And Violetta, darling, dearest sister who turned her back when I needed her the most. I cast her out. I finally said everything to her that I wanted to say. I have hurt back.
Marie Lu
Language is insight itself.
Confucius
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
Lao Tzu
Success is a collection of problems solved.
I.M. Pei
The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. “If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it.”(Analects 4.5)
Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius
When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, ‘Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything’. The Master heard of it and said, ‘This is the ritual’.
Confucius
I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
Lu Xun
I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.
Vann Chow
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu
Change shouldn’t be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization.
Pearl Zhu
Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
Lao Tzu
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.
Pearl Zhu
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Lisa See
[2 Corinthians 1:21-22] says that God has anointed us, has sealed us, and has given us the pledge, the foretaste, of the Spirit. If we are going to minister something of Christ to others, we have to experience Christ by the working of the cross, and the working of the cross is for the anointing, the sealing, and the pledge of the Spirit.
Witness Lee
Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.
Pearl Zhu
But Christianity is a queer business! If at the outset we try to do anything, we get nothing; if we seek to attain something, we miss everything. For Christianity begins not with a big DO, but with a big DONE.
Watchman Nee
Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.
Ming-Dao Deng
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
Li-Young Lee
When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself
Lao Tzu
Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.
Zhou Weihui
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.
Confucius
One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.
Pearl Zhu
To kill deliberately is very wrong,” said Chen Gong. “I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me,” was Cao Cao’s reply. Chen Gong could say nothing.
Luo Guanzhong
Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Lao Tzu
I am supposed to be helping her prepare for the GRE. Instead, we spend most of the time talking about color. The color of my clothes and shoes. The color of other people's clothes and shoes. The color of the sky when the sun has dipped just low enough to cause red light to bend the most and then, voilà, a sunset.
Weike Wang
Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.
Pearl Zhu
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.
Marie Lu
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.
I.M. Pei
Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards
Adeline Yen Mah
My path is full of petals–I have swept it for no others.My thatch gate has been closed–but opens now for you. It’s a long way to the market, I can offer you little– Yet here in my cottage there is old wine for our cups.
Du Fu
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
Sun Tzu
Future is the most difficult problem of our era.
Pearl Zhu
For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But my personal experience had shown me that most of the Chinese people remained kind, sensitive, and compassionate even though the cruel reality of the system under which they had to live compelled them to lie and pretend. Pg. 409
Nien Cheng
To believe in moments makes life endless, no?
Meia Geddes
Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously
Confucius
You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.
Marie Lu
Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.
Pearl Zhu
When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart.
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng