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“Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.”
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
“Equipped as he is by his very nature for worship, man cannot not worship ; and if his outlook is cut off from the spiritual plane, he will find a “god” to worship at some lower level, thus endowing something relative with what belongs only to the Absolute. Hence the existence today of so many “words to conjure with” like “freedom”, “equality”, “literacy”, “science”, “civilization”, words at the utterance of which a multitude of souls fall prostrate in sub-mental adoration.”
― Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions
― Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions
“the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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