Quotes About Adeline Yen Mah

#1. I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times.

Bruce Lee

#2. When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking 'Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?'

Melissa McBride

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

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#4. While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.

Guy Branum

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

Adeline Yen Mah

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

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

Adeline Yen Mah

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

Adeline Yen Mah

#9. There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

Liane Moriarty

#10. These humiliations are the essence of the game.

Alistair Cooke

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

Adeline Yen Mah

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

Adeline Yen Mah

#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.

Adeline Yen Mah

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

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

Adeline Yen Mah

#16. The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself.

Valley Brown

#17. 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.

Adeline Yen Mah

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

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#19. Create your own destiny!

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#20. The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

Tom Robbins

#21. When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor

#22. In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

Louis R. Chenevert

#23. I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

Markus Zusak

#24. 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.

Adeline Yen Mah

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

Adeline Yen Mah

#26. We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, in order to know what has been freely given to us by God. 1 Corinthians 2:12

Beth Moore

#27. 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.

Adeline Yen Mah

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

Adeline Yen Mah

#29. Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

Henry Ford

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

Adeline Yen Mah

#31. 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

Adeline Yen Mah

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

Adeline Yen Mah