Dreams of Joy Quotes

“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn't work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“My mother used to tell me that Heaven never seals off all exits.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“I came here to be happy, and I’m going to be happy. If I smile, then maybe I can convince my body just how happy I am.”
― lisa see, Dreams of Joy

“Miracles are everywhere, and as I watch my sister--forever, beautiful, forever my little sister--staring into the eyes of the one man she ever loved, I know that indeed things do return to the beginning. The world opens again, and I see a life of happiness without fear. I gaze at my family--complicated though it may be--and know that fate smiles on us.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“sisters,”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete...”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“because sometimes it’s just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn’t work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“No matter what you’re feeling or how desperate you become, always take a moral position. If you do that, God will watch over you.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“La felicità nasce dalla sofferenza, è questo ho intuito.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“It’s fair to say I don’t know what I’m doing. I like to plot my life and proceed carefully, but life doesn’t always follow a plan.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“When you lose your home country, what do you preserve and what do you abandon?”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“The realization that truth, forgiveness, and goodness are more important than revenge, condemnation, and cruelty gives me courage and certainty.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“winter gone, mountains clear, water sparkles.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“People are shaped by the earth and water around them.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“The lotus symbolizes purity, because it rises out of the mud but looks pristine.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“spring comes, flowers fragrant, bird sings.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That’s what the government is doing to the masses now.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“sometimes it’s just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn’t work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“My feelings are so very big, their borders can't be seen.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“I close my eyes. I hear the voices of the past in the wind and in the beating of my heart. My two mothers, my two fathers, and my dear uncle all tried to tell me I was wrong about the People's Republic of China. In the beginning, going all the way back to the University of Chicago, I thought socialism and communism were good, that people should share equally, that it wasn't fair that my family had suffered in America when others drove fancy cars, lived in big houses, and shopped in Beverly Hills. I ran away and came here in hopes of finding an ideal world, to find my birth father, to avoid my mother and aunt, and to crush my guilt. None of that worked the way I expected. The ideal world was filled with hypocrisy and with people like Z.G., who went to parties while the masses suffered. In finding my birth father, I only remembered how wonderful my father Sam was. He loved me unconditionally, while Z.G. wanted me as a muse, as a pretty daughter to show off, as a physical manifestation of his love for Auntie May, as an artist who would reflect how great an artist he is. I thought I could use idealism to solve my inner conflicts, but in healing my inner conflicts I destroyed my idealism.
As I gaze into my daughter's face, everything becomes very clear. My mother and aunt loved me, stood by me, and supported me, no matter what. They were both good mothers. My greatest misery and grief is that I have not been a good mother and I can't save my daughter. I pray that in our final days and hours Samantha will know how much I love her.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“I close my eyes. I hear the voices of the past in the wind and in the beating of my heart.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“plants and leave the bulbs in the ground, ignore ears of corn, or carelessly drop cabbage”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“I thought I could use idealism to solve my inner conflicts, but in healing my inner conflicts I destroyed my idealism.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Tuhan memang menciptakan perempuan, namun Dia lupa menciptakan kebahagiaan.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Non vi è ferita più profonda o dolorosa di quella inferta da coloro che sostengono di amarti di più.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“La felicità nasce dalla sofferenza, è questo che ho intuito.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“BE KIND AND BENEVOLENT. MAKE A CASUAL STOP ON THE ENDLESS WAY TO THE FUTURE. and PUT ALL TROUBLES FROM YOUR MIND.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy