The life we receive is not always what we choose.
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he’s just another bird drinking from your misery.
Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
There are a lot of people who think that’s what’s needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
I won’t be what I’m not. -Jing-mei.
Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
It means we’re looking one way, while following another. We’re for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don’t want.
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re in control.
Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
Yesterday my daughter said to me, ‘My marriage is falling apart.’ And now all she can do is watch it falling.
Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
There’s no hope. There’s no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!