Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 5

If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.
Chinese Proverb
The face of self-pity was universally understood.
Vann Chow
We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.
Hock G. Tjoa
Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
Pearl Zhu
Every day Zuigan used to call out to himself, "Master!" and then he answered himself, "Yes, Sir!" And he added, "Awake, Awake!" and then answered, "Yes, Sir! Yes, Sir!""From now onwards, do not be deceived by others!" "No, Sir! I will not, Sir!"
Wumen Huikai
Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.
Shan Sa
Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.
Pearl Zhu
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.
Zhuangzi
Are you afraid that you're hurting your national auto industry? - Environmental protection isn't a burden. It's innovation. Protecting a backward industry is no way to promote innovation. The government's role is to set standards and then ensure fair competition in the market. You win the market through fair competition.
Chai Jing
A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.
Liezi
Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
Zhuangzi
And of all the rooms in my childhood,God was the largestand most empty.
Li-Young Lee
I’ve always loved you,” he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. “You know this.” She swallowed a lump in her throat. “I only wonder whether I deserve such devotion.”“Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is,” he said with a quiet intensity. “What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.
Sherry Thomas
Change is a digital continuum.
Pearl Zhu
Nature is not human-hearted.
Lao Tzu
A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
Liu Cixin
People use the words "beginning" and "end" to describe the start and end of things. However, "beginning" is really the event of coming together when energy gathers, and "end" is simply the dissolution of that energy. That which came together can easily dissolve if conditions become unfavorable. That which has dissolved may come together again if circumstances are appropriate. Therefore, who is to say that there is a beginning and an end?
Liezi
The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.
Pearl Zhu
Yet, my grandfather was not a monster. He was simply a man of ordinary moral courage whose capacity for great evil was revealed to his and my everlasting shame. Labeling someone a monster implies that he is from another world, one which has nothing to do with us. It cuts off the bonds of affection and fear, assures us of our own superiority, but there's nothing learned, nothing gained. It's simple, but it's cowardly. I know now that only by empathizing with a man like my grandfather can we understand the depth of the suffering he caused. There are no monsters. The monster is us.
Ken Liu
Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart.
Marie Lu
You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,and I smile, and am silent,and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom,The water flows.
Li Bai
The earth is black in front of the cliff, and no orchids grow.Creepers crawl in the brown mud by the path.Where did the birds of yesterday fly?To what other mountain did the animals go?Leopards and pythons dislike this ruined spot;Cranes and snakes avoid the desolation.My criminal thoughts of those days pastBrought on the disaster of today.
Wu Cheng'en
I love you," I whisper over and over again. "Don't go," I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.
Marie Lu
The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.
Pearl Zhu
The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
Lao Tzu
I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.
Marie Lu
Trusting me,” Teren murmurs, “is a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta.”“I’m doing more than that,” I reply. “For the rest of this journey, you will be my personal guard.”At that, Teren’s eyes flare with surprise and anger. “I’m not your lackey, Your Majesty.”“And I’m not Giulietta,” I fire back.
Marie Lu
There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.
Lao Tzu
There is no secret ingredient
Mr Ping
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.
Xinran
Second Corinthians speaks concerning the ministry, which is constituted with, and produced and formed by, the experiences of the riches of Christ through sufferings, consuming pressures, and the killing work of the cross. The ministry is not merely a matter of gift. A person may be able to speak fluently and eloquently and give many good illustrations and proverbs, but this is just a gift. What the church, the Body, needs today is the ministry.
Witness Lee
Chaos is another name for opportunity
I-Ching
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius
A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.
Pearl Zhu
Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.
Pearl Zhu
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius
Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.
Lisa Bu
He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.
Zhuangzi
The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve.
Pearl Zhu
Hope can get you through anything.
Jamie Ford
Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine
Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.
Zhou Weihui
Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.
Chinese Proverb
When Compasia took pity on me, she reached down into the Underworld, touched the shoulder of Moritas, and asked her forgiveness. Then Compasia took my sister in her arms and placed her in the sky, where she, too, turned to stardust.Magiano looks at me, his eyes wide. It seems as if he already, somehow, understands.“My goddess made me a promise,” I whisper.Only now do I realize that I have never seen him cry before.In the stories, Compasia and her human lover would descend each night from the stars to walk the mortal world, before vanishing with the dawn. So, together, we stare at the sky, waiting.
Marie Lu
Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things.
Lao Tzu
mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy
Sun Tzu
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
I laugh with him. I imagine mixing poison into his tea, then watching his face turn purple and anguished; I picture myself leaning over him, looking on patiently, with my chin resting in my hands, admiring his dying, writhing body as I count out the minutes.
Marie Lu
What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.
Su Shi
Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.
Weike Wang
People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face
Adeline Yen Mah
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
Zhuangzi
Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.
Pearl Zhu
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
Lin Yutang
One has to be careful, whenever one tells a story about a great injustice. We are a species that loves narrative, but has been taught not to trust an individual speaker.
Ken Liu