How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.