Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.