Lisa See Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lisa See
Lisa See Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Lisa See on Wise Famous Quotes.
It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death.
You can't learn about living unless you live. You can't live unless you take a chance; and your living is limited by the chances you take.
the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a vat of dye.
To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.
I came here to be happy, and I'm going to be happy. If I smile, then maybe I can convince my body just how happy I am.
You can always count on people to crowded your party when you're in glory but you should never dream of people sending you charcoal in the cold.
It's fair to say I don't know what I'm doing. I like to plot my life and proceed carefully, but life doesn't always follow a plan.
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
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
I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
No matter what you're feeling or how desperate you become, always take a moral position. If you do that, God will watch over you.
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
The realization that truth, forgiveness, and goodness are more important than revenge, condemnation, and cruelty gives me courage and certainty.
The human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.
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.
To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That's what the government is doing to the masses now.
We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can't escape what we are ... obedient chinese daughters.
Only through pain will you have beauty. Only through suffering will you find peace. I wrap, I bind, but you will have the reward.
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.
When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love
We were to be like long vines with entwined roots, like trees that stand a thousand years, like a pair of mandarin ducks mated for life
Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.
I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you're a writer.
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
I remember a song we used to sing, "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I thought it was, "Columbus, Jump in the Ocean.
What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to?
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
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.