Han Suyin Quotes

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging ...

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear ...

People never think about words, they only feel them.

There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...

Sadness is so ungrateful.