Quotes About Growth

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

breasts had grown to gargantuan proportions

eating for two.

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.

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

One mistake can change the course of your life. You can never return to your original path or go back to the person you were.

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

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.

If fire doesn't raze the mountain, the land will not be fertile.

For a tree that has many branches, even a small breeze will shake some loose.

The fallen leaves return to the root.

You can't learn about living unless you live. You can't live unless you take a chance; and your living is limited by the chances you take.

Sometimes you must experience heartache to have a treasured result.

La felicità nasce dalla sofferenza, è questo ho intuito.

Deep love-true-heart love-must grow. Back then I didn't yet understand the burning kind of love, so instead I thought about the rice paddies I used to see on my daily walks down to the river with my brother when I still had all my milk teeth. Maybe I could make our love grow like a farmer made his crop to grow-through hard work, unwavering will, and the blessings of nature. How funny that I can remember that even now! Waaa! I knew so little about life, but I knew enough to think like a farmer.

Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.

Man becomes wiser and more mature through life experience. The same can be said of tea.

The lotus symbolizes purity, because it rises out of the mud but looks pristine.

Danseuse routine and my fame grew. I could walk into a

You are a little girl, so you are still in milk days.

After bracken is picked nine times, it will sprout again. The saying Fall down eight times, stand up nine reminds us of this and symbolizes the wish for the dead to pave the way for future generations

La felicità nasce dalla sofferenza, è questo che ho intuito.

the four phases of a woman's life are the same

plants and leave the bulbs in the ground, ignore ears of corn, or carelessly drop cabbage