Quotes by Thinking Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her. Amy Tan unhappyworldthinking Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused. Amy Tan confusedbelievethinking I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable. Amy Tan miserablebookthinking I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES. Amy Tan spiritwritingthinking I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses. Amy Tan knowingmovingthinking God, life changes faster than you think. Amy Tan inspirelifethinking You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning) Amy Tan mindpeoplethinking People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy. Amy Tan alzheimersmotherthinking There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. Amy Tan successfulpeoplethinking You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. Amy Tan writingbookthinking Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East. Amy Tan differencesmovingthinking Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different. Amy Tan qualityjesusthinking You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei Amy Tan think-for-yourselftryingthinking Why do you think you are missing something you never had? Amy Tan missing-somethingmissingthinking And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose Amy Tan fateexpectationsthinking No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. Amy Tan encouragementfictionthinking I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese. Amy Tan motherpeoplethinking My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate. Amy Tan fatemotherthinking You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity. Amy Tan differencesselfthinking I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we? Amy Waldman countrypastthinking«180181182183184185186187188189190»
