Adeline Yen Mah Quotes

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

Quickly pretended disappointment. We hailed a taxi and squeezed in with all our luggage. Aunt Reine

Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

That's exactly what I'll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I'm going to ask Big
Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there's
obviously nobody looking out for me. I'll just have to find my own way.

Create your own destiny!

I ran over without a word, cradled PLT tenderly in my arms and carried her upstairs. Placing her on my own bed, I wrapped my mortally wounded pet in my best school scarf and lay down next to her. It was a night of grief I have never forgotten.

Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity.

Suen Le! (it means, "Let it be.

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

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

To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to "serve him". Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to "give" him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a "one-woman man".

Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Remember, the best cure for worry is to do something positive. That's because fear is endless and formless, whereas even the worst outcome has an ending.

You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they'll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You'll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don't, I'm afraid they will not respect you as much.