Top 70 Cheng Yen Quotes
#1. With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.
Wu Cheng'en
#2. Nothing in the world is difficult, it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.
Wu Cheng'en
#3. She remembered Grace telling her about Lorcan's evasiveness when she'd first joined the Noctourne-his ability to speak without saying anything, to talk in riddles.
He's a conundrum, thought Cheng Li. A walking, talking conundrum
Justin Somper
#4. Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?
Calvin Cheng
#5. While I listened to the words of homage to Mao, I remembered Mao's awesome power, like a blanket over China threatening to smother whomever he chose. Pg. 218
Nien Cheng
#6. Since good intentions and sympathy for others often led people into trouble, the Chinese people had invented a new proverb that said, 'The more you do, the more trouble you have; the less you do, the less trouble you have. If you do nothing whatever, you will become a model citizen.
Nien Cheng
#7. The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.
Cheng Fei
#8. Love is taking care of oneself by freeing one's mind of worries and conducting one self with propriety.
Master Cheng Yen
#9. So how do you make your exit?" she asked. "In a puff of smoke? Or do you just vaporize?"
He grinned at her. "Much as I hate to be a crushing disappointment to you, I reckon I'll just take the door.
Justin Somper
#10. What you must do," said Monkey, "is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.
Wu Cheng'en
#12. Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!
Wu Cheng'en
#13. The hundred flavors of rare dainties Are no more once you've eaten your fill. You may accumulate private savings But not in your stomach private hoardings!
Wu Cheng'en
#14. So I'm deputizing for the deputy, am I?, asked Connor with a grin.
Justin Somper
#15. Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.
James H. Cone
#16. Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid
Cheng Man-ch'ing
#17. Ronan was not going to Henry Cheng's under any circumstances. All that smiling and activism gave him a rash.
Maggie Stiefvater
#18. I wanted to protect you, but I'm starting to think that the best thing you can do for people is teach them how to protect themselves. Every girl needs to be at least a little dangerous.
Kai Cheng Thom
#19. Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.
Gu Cheng
#20. To count a few gulls makes the journey happy.
In the reedy bend, under the willow bank,
My wife and children smile with me.
The moment I fall asleep, wind and waves are quiet;
No glory, no disgrace, and not a single worry.
Wu Cheng'en
#21. If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.
Cheng Yi
#23. And it was funny, that they call it falling, because that was what it was. The ground giving up underneath you. The surge of air. He did not stand a chance.
Bill Cheng
#24. The small things are the fuses to get the bigger things to explode.
Roseanne Cheng
#25. Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her steadfast loyalty and love for her family are truly inspirational for young and old alike.
Nien Cheng
#26. a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light
Gu Cheng
#27. When technology is no longer novel, videos need more substance to impel viewers to watch, engage, and share, and we've already reached that point with camera drones.
Eric Cheng
#28. The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.
Gu Cheng
#29. The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.
Cheng Man-ch'ing
#30. She's around here somewhere. Check your pockets. She could be there. Sometimes she falls into these cracks between the floorboards.
Maggie Stiefvater
#31. If you want to have a future, don't do anything with no future in it.
Wu Cheng'en
#32. Use the mind to direct the chi and the chi to mobilise the body.
Cheng Man-ch'ing
#33. Figure 5: Business Situation Framework Note: Bolded items are relevant in a higher percentage of cases.
Victor Cheng
#34. He raised his arm to strike me. At that very moment, [my daughter] Meiping's cat, Fluffy, came through the kitchen door, jumped on the man's leg from behind, and sank his teeth into the flesh of the man's calf.
Nien Cheng
#35. People do evil simply because they do not know.
Cheng Yi
#36. What do you mean Ronan's a magical entity? Is he a demon? Because this all makes sense if so.
Maggie Stiefvater
#37. When man has a virtuous thought, Heaven will grant him support.
Wu Cheng'en
#38. means "I haven't eaten breakfast" or "I didn't eat breakfast." Maybe I forgot to eat breakfast or maybe I didn't have time to eat breakfast, the result is that I didn't have breakfast.
Yangyang Cheng
#39. Leaves," Ronan Lynch's voice said, full of intention.
"Dust," Adam Parrish said.
"Wind," Blue Sargent said.
"Shit," Henry Cheng added.
Maggie Stiefvater
#40. Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.
~pg 95
Nien Cheng
#41. Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.
Wu Cheng'en
#42. It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light.
Gu Cheng
#44. When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.
Cheng Yen
#45. Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.
Cheng Man-ch'ing
#46. No more coming home as to a death sentence.
No more leaving after this leaving.
Boey Kim Cheng
#47. This skin cripples me. It always has. - Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)
Jeanette Lynes
#48. After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and said, Look at that wonderful moolight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home.
Wu Cheng'en
#49. Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.
~149
Nien Cheng
#50. From the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party, the greatest casualties of the Cultural Revolution were the Party's prestige and its ability to govern. Pg. 539
Nien Cheng
#51. With love in our hearts, there is nothing we cannot overcome.
Cheng Yen
#52. If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his life.
Wu Cheng'en
#53. Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?"
"Peng you," I say.
"Peng you," she says, only instead of pung yo, it sounds like penguin. "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.
Andrea Cheng
#54. If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.
Cheng Yi
#55. I take it we're friends now," Henry said.
"We must be," Gansey replied. "Jane says it should be so."
"It should be so," Blue agreed.
Maggie Stiefvater
#56. The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.
Calvin Cheng
#57. ...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.
Eugenia Cheng
#58. The longer children live on the street, the more they realize the meaninglessness of words. They don't say things such as 'Thank you' and 'you are my friend.' They'd rather show through their actions what is inside. It is more difficult for these street kids to speak than to act.
Chi Cheng Huang
#59. I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.
Calvin Cheng
#60. Be grateful always for everything and everyone at every moment.
Master Cheng Yen
#61. I must not only keep alive, but I must be as strong as granite, so that no matter how much I was knocked about, I could remain unbroken.
Nien Cheng
#62. A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.
Wu Cheng'en
#63. And on the way, we'll have plenty of time to talk or not talk about whatever's on your mind
Justin Somper
#65. My master was kidnapped by your household's demon chieftains. Return him early, and I'll spare your lives! If you don't, I'll overturn your den and reduce you spirits to pus and blood!
Wu Cheng'en
#66. But that's the thing about Outs. They are so far on the periphery that people underestimate them. And people don't realize that they've underestimated them until it's too late.
Roseanne Cheng
#68. A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.
Cheng Yen
#69. Wife indeed!" laughed Monkey. "You haven't got a wife now. There are some sorts of Taoists that are family men; but who ever heard of a Buddhist priest calmly talking about his 'wife'?
Wu Cheng'en
#70. Ultimate in respectability: not only received back into the ranks of the people but also
Nien Cheng
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