Xiaochao Yuan Quotes

#1. There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.

Bronnie Ware

#2. They're not going to take another life from me.
They can't have my wife.
They can't take her.
They can't steal my happiness.
I'm not going to let them.
Not now. Not ever.
Not again.
Not again.

J.M. Darhower

#3. The strings felt strange against my fingers, like reunited friends who have forgotten what they have in common.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Gautama Buddha

#6. The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.

Paul David Tripp

#7. There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters - because it's who you are.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.

Kiera Cass

#9. My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

Eric Balfour

#10. Who is destroying the mountains of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia?...It isn't the coal companies. It's us...You did this. Okay, forget the guilt. How can we change that?

Erik Reece

#11. Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction.

Thomas L. Friedman

#12. My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart.

Eric Ripert