#rough

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this. ↗

— Mo Yan

#become #down #famous #had #heard

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#china #culture #debated #how #into

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#brought #century #china #conflict #culture

Someone once told me that life wasn't fair...and they were right. But I don't think that life was ever meant to be fair or perfect. It's not the tragedy, it's how we deal with it. It's whether we come out stronger because of it. It's not about blocking out the pain or hiding from it, it's about letting the pain shape you into someone better than you were before. ↗

— Nicole Garber

#strength #strength-through-adversity #art

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#avalanche #bury #fallen #going #just

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#being #had #him #irish #joy

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#cup #defense #did #few #game

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#came #clearly #democratic #democratic party #election

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#decades #false #having #learn #lived

She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#strength-through-adversity #life