Quotes from Adeline Yen Mah

Mother Teresa once said, "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty." To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

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

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

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

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.

I ran over without a word, cradled PLT tenderly in my arms and carried her upstairs. Placing her on my own bed, I wrapped my mortally wounded pet in my best school scarf and lay down next to her. It was a night of grief I have never forgotten.

First, you must believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. Remember the old adage: genius is ten percent inspiration, ninety percent perspiration.

To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to serve him. Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to give him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a one-woman man.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.

Though you have a fine mind and a subtle intellect, the sentiments you express not only expose your ignorance, they also wound my heart.

But if I tried to be really good and studied very very hard, perhaps things would become different one day, I would think. Meanwhile, I must not tell anyone how bad it really was.

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backward.

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

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

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.