Quotes - Xiao-yong Jin (New York, NY) Showing 1-14 of 14

#1

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational

#2

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

2127 likes

#3

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

4051 likes

#4

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

1732 likes

#5

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: truth

2881 likes

#6

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

2594 likes

#7

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

tags: inspirational

3685 likes

#8

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

6510 likes

#9

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love

1815 likes

#10

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe

1449 likes

#11

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

4372 likes

#12

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”
― John Masefield

1336 likes

#13

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity

4568 likes

#14

“If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.”
― Donald Knuth

tags: optimization, programming, unhappiness

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