Inspiration Quote by Amy Tan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”

“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death as warning, as an unavoidable matter of fact. Little Debbie's mom down the block might say, 'Honey, look both ways before crossing the street.' My mother's version: 'You don't look, you get smash flat like sand dab.' (Sand dabs were the cheap fish we bought live in the market, distinguished in my mind by their two eyes affixed on one side of their woebegone cartoon faces.)”

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”

“Dementia was like a truth serum.”

“My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was faith that kept all these good things coming our way, only I thought she said "fate" because she couldn't pronounce the "th" sound in "faith".”

“He is able who thinks he is able.”

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”

“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”