Ma Long Quotes

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.

Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.

Life is like a restaurant

What was wrong with

The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

I lie to her. Because this world is not safe. The people who are supposed to protect us, the people we are supposed to trust -- I know that sometimes they are the ones who do the most harm.

I forgive you. Case closed.” Is not the final answer

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.

I could feel their grief as if it were a beast holding us down.

The paradox of life

We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.

Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

If you haven't walked in someone else's shoes, it's difficult to know the fit, so be kind and compassionate.

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

He was funny and charming, but also kind. It seemed the older she got, the more she appreciated kindness in people.

In this world we must try to be kind to one another.

That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness ad kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle. For Annie it seemed natural.

It isn't a weakness to accept kindness. It isn't a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

I heard wordOf bellied sailcloth, Creak of oars, And gold in Eastland.Then I smelledA smell remembered:Salt of sprayAnd black-pitched boat's keel.

For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

There's something I want to say in this space, but it's an emptiness where there's usually a hug. — Colin Morton to Mary Lee Bragg, 1972

It had only taken me six years to change from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old

Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.

The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about

Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences.

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.

I promise I'll protect you now. I won't let them touch you again. " "I know you'll try." I can do more than try.

Magnanimous of you.'His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo.

His shoes looked too large

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

It won't do to be afraid of failure. Failure is the mother of success

I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms was impossible, so he just went ahead and did it anyhow.

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.

He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them.

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon

(I)f you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.