Chinese Life Quotes

#1. Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Lin Yutang

#2. Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

Alan Watts

#3. Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'

Sung Kang

#4. A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

John Pomfret

#5. I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

Lorraine Bracco

#6. He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Salman Rushdie

#7. 'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

Katie Leung

#8. Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade who comes and tells him what famine is like, you never saw such a fat man in your life.

Nancy Mitford

#9. This communal parenting brought me out of the privacy of our foreign enclave and into the public life of the community. Here, parenting was everyone's responsibility; all adults were "aunties" and "uncles".

Aminta Arrington

#10. When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

L. Ron Hubbard

#11. A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Xiaolu Guo

#13. I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

Paz Vega

#14. I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys talking to farmers and their children.

Jack Kerouac

#15. Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

Lin Yutang

#16. The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Camron Wright

#17. The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

Alice Eve

#18. Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Phillip Lim

#19. Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

Hu Shih

#20. All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.

Richard Wilhelm

#21. At the circus, a careless mother may let her child take part in the experiments of a Chinese magician. He puts him in a box. He opens the box; it's empty. He closes it again. He opens it; the child reappears and goes back to his seat. Now it is no longer the same child. Nobody doubts it.

Jean Cocteau

#22. One the stuff hits the fan ... swirl a pair of (Chinese) stress balls.

Shade Aura Melanson

#23. Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

Randall Jarrell

#24. There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura ... or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy. This is the energy that flows within you. It can be shaped, molded, directed.

Michael Scott

#25. Unlike my father and millions of Chinese, everyone in America - every man, woman and child, whether rich or poor - has the freedom to choose, freedom to shape his or her own destiny. Don't you agree that you can better manage your own life than other people can?

Helen Raleigh

#26. The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They're right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#27. Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

Zhou Weihui

#28. The situations depicted in the Book of Changes are the primary data of life
what happens to everybody, every day, and what is simple and easy to understand.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#29. Kody "You know the Chinese have a curse."
Nick "And that is?"
Kody "May you live an interesting life.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they're right. The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.

Bert Stern

#31. The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences.

Li Zhaoxing

#32. If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

Lin Yutang

#33. He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese.

Dalai Lama XIV

#34. Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

Fran Drescher

#35. Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

Zhuangzi

#37. According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls. Our fertility stops being about having children and starts being about what we create for ourselves that benefits us and the people around us.

Christiane Northrup

#38. I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Martha Beck

#39. In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Amy Chua

#40. Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

Gary Locke

#41. I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

Abigail Washburn

#42. I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

Louis Sachar

#43. The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

Leslie Bratspis

#44. Success and accomplishments aren't the golden "good life" goals. Instead, having a good life is simple. For an old man to be happy, he just wants to watch the fireworks with his granddaughter on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Marcella Purnama

#45. There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.

Evan Osnos

#46. Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death
though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

David Letterman

#47. Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the only Asian kid in my elementary school, and I longed to be like everyone else. I insisted on American food; I was embarrassed by my mother's poor English.

Tess Gerritsen

#48. Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Hu Shih

#49. As the four girls were taking her father's life, she had tried to rush onto the stage. But two old university janitors held her down and whispered into her ear that she would lose her own life if she went.

Liu Cixin

#50. In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The Sims,' a life-simulation game, and 'StarCraft,' a science-fiction game.

Kim Young-ha

#51. As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Eric Allin Cornell

#52. Crisis is both danger and opportunity.

Chinese Quote

#53. My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

Mo Yan

#54. Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

Pankaj Mishra

#55. Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

Sterling W. Sill

#56. Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji

Matthew Polly

#57. We Chinese did not like to give or receive certain gifts for superstitious reasons: knives, because they could sever a relationship; handkerchiefs, for they portended weeping; and clocks, as they were thought to measure out the days of your life.

Yangsze Choo

#58. Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little.

Kenneth Minogue