Li Qunyu

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

It is proved…that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.