Amy Tan Quotes - Page 3

American writer

What happened to Violet was terrible, and I’m not saying fate happens without blame. But when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.
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Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.- Amy Tan

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With hope, a mind is always free.
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re in control.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort.
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They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
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There are a lot of people who think that’s what’s needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness.
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Your life is what you see in front of you.
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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
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All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.
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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
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