Inspirational Quotes from Books discussion

When you meet someone, you must silently ask them a question: How big is your world? This is one of the most important things you can know about a person.

There are times when you meet someone and you realise that your own world is not big enough to fit them. Then you have a decision. Do you say there is no room? Or do you move to a bigger (place)?

You think you are tangible. That which is intangible is a small part of your life. But from time to time you realise the truth. You are intangible. That which is tangible is only a small part of your life.

It is true about knowing the size of the the world of those we associate with. Though this often times leave the weak weaker, it is an opportunity for him to become stronger. It makes no sence living in a world where you are swallowed up neither in that which you cannot turn.

I should have made clear that the two posts above are quotations from the book up there in the topic. That may be obvious, but maybe not.

"Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose."

Philip Gourevitch in the foreword to The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu