When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

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

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

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.