Amy Tan Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

  Amy Tan

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 1995.

• In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

  Amy Tan

  America, Giving, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.254, Penguin

• Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Giving, Stories

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

• But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Winning

• 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.

  Amy Tan

  Country, Lying, Giving

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.252, Penguin

• Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.

  Amy Tan

  Giving Up, Book, Don't Give Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

• External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.

  Amy Tan

  Responsibility, Unique, People

  American Acheivement interview, June 28, 1996.

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