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

“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

“sisters,”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete...”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“anything that I didn’t have to see Tao”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Heaven never seals off all exits.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Even with all the changes”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“I recently turned forty-three. I’ve had many terrible days in my life”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“They may call it Mid-Autumn Festival now”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“We need to push ourselves,” he declares. “Hard work for a few years”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“I’m reminded—as so many artists have been before me—of man’s insignificance in the face of nature.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“White Russians”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Couplets are painted on the three rafters: 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

“She’s probably been taking in my smell too”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy