"Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies."

-- Iris Chang

#Baby Quotes #Couple Quotes #White Quotes

“Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.”
“Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.”
“One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.”
“At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.”
“Only time conquers time and its burdens.”
“If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.”

Source : "How to Overcome Depression and Other Heart-to-Heart Talks". Book by J.P Vaswani, 2011.
“From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my father. If she had been crying, she came back composed; if she had left angry with us, she returned in good humor. So we naturally believed that there was a cleansing, purifying effect to be had; that letting the fresh wind blow through you mind and spirits as well as your hair and clothing purged black thoughts; that contemplating the ceaseless motion of the waves calmed a raging spirit.”
“And the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart.”

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