Suyin Han Quotes

#1. No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear ...

Han Suyin

#2. Sadness is so ungrateful.

Han Suyin

#3. Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Han Suyin

#4. There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.

Han Suyin

#5. People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Han Suyin

#6. Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

Han Suyin

#7. We can't do this without you," I managed at last. "Everyone talks about my powers, but you're the badass here.

Richelle Mead

#8. The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

Han Suyin

#9. It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

Han Suyin

#10. This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

Han Suyin

#11. There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Han Suyin

#12. Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

Han Suyin

#13. One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Han Suyin

#14. We were all quiet for so long after, touched by the magnitude of it all. This is what we are connected to. What we are all connected to. When the lights go out, so do we.

Sarah Winman

#15. Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Han Suyin

#16. Purpose driven attitude of service is the driving force for daring success.

Debasish Mridha

#17. A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...

Han Suyin

#18. All humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle his own eternity of aloneness. And love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. - The Mountain is Young

Han Suyin

#19. There is a lot of unhappiness in this world. Try not to feed it.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#20. And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Han Suyin

#21. People never think about words, they only feel them.

Han Suyin

#22. There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin

#23. Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging ...

Han Suyin

#24. I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

James Dyson

#25. I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

Han Suyin

#26. By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

John Harbaugh

#28. We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

Han Suyin

#29. It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

Laini Taylor

#30. Be mindful and live every day of your great life.

Debasish Mridha

#31. I lay my cheek on his solid back. I realize this is the real Jacade. The man who's strong and fierce, but vulnerable and damaged. Confident and dominating, but generous and kind.

M.K. Gilher