Adeline Yen Mah Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

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#3. 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

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#4. Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

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

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#6. At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. Create your own destiny!

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

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

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#12. Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart.

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#13. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#18. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

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#19. Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

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

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