27 Quotes by Adeline Yen Mah

"Don’t trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me."

"People with yuan fen are destined to like one another; Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart. But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals, They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face."

"Create your own destiny!"

"Mother Teresa once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty.” To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities."

"First, you must believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. Remember the old adage: genius is ten percent inspiration, ninety percent perspiration."

"To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to “serve him”. Even Ye Ye’s boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to “give” him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a “one-woman man”."

"I ran over without a word, cradled PLT tenderly in my arms and carried her upstairs. Placing her on my own bed, I wrapped my mortally wounded pet in my best school scarf and lay down next to her. It was a night of grief I have never forgotten."