You can only understand the present age when it is past. Han Suyin More Quotes by Han Suyin More Quotes From Han Suyin There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin strength witty inspirational Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. Han Suyin truth hurt life I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage. Han Suyin liberty freedom justice There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness. Han Suyin gentleness stronger world Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. Han Suyin solitude love two Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise. Han Suyin dominance race believe All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness. Han Suyin frightened solitude humans This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down. Han Suyin asia done long Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move. Han Suyin goldfish flower moving Sadness is so ungrateful. Han Suyin ungrateful sadness We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history. Han Suyin our-time vulnerable products People never think about words, they only feel them. Han Suyin feels people thinking It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal. Han Suyin lovers unique thinking No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear. Han Suyin generations events blow People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds. Han Suyin soul weather people Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason. Han Suyin dear loved-ones essence With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal. Han Suyin infidelity betrayal people I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time? Han Suyin emotion hate years Persecution matures young rebels. Han Suyin persecution rebel young Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome. Han Suyin events outcomes different
