My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears. Lisa See More Quotes by Lisa See More Quotes From Lisa See Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is. Lisa See baby life children I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same. Lisa See bad-qualities quality enough Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that. Lisa See keeping-secrets secret feels 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 seeing hearing hundred I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate. Lisa See fate done wonder We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men. Lisa See strong men thinking You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you. Lisa See plans choices sound People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. Lisa See tests lasts people He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him. Lisa See eye heart thinking People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive. Lisa See smart strong war Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. Lisa See reading writing book Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want. Lisa See what-you-want want You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. Lisa See desperate may In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was. Lisa See wings bird world While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside. Lisa See lovely reflection needs In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love. Lisa See pain mother country Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire? Lisa See our-dreams dream desire In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. Lisa See regret moments motivational And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age. Lisa See age feet interesting a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love--true-heart love--must grow. Lisa See deep-love eye heart
