Quotes of Amy Tan

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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

- Amy Tan

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“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. ”

- Alan Moore

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always worth it. ”

- TorronLee Dewar

“ Living with a purpose in life is more fulfilling than living a rich lifestyle without a purpose. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ”

- H. J. Chammas

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. ”

- Fulton J. Sheen

“ Remember when your heart is empty, don’t fill it with lies and deception. ”

- RJ Intindola