Ping Fu famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.
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Life has been messy for me, as it has for most everyone. I have come to the realization that challenging experiences break us all at some point—our bodies and minds, our hearts and egos. When we put ourselves back together, we find that we are no longer perfectly straight, but rather bent and cracked. Yet it is through these cracks that our authenticity shines. It is by revealing these cracks that we can learn to see and be seen deeply.
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I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space.
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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.
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As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.
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When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
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The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
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There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
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