{"author":"Adeline Yen Mah","author_id":"Adeline+Yen+Mah","total_quotes":6,"quotes":[{"text":"Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards.","author":"Adeline Yen Mah","tags":["learning","life-experience","understanding-life"],"id":1876,"author_id":"Adeline+Yen+Mah"},{"text":"People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face.","author":"Adeline Yen Mah","tags":["poetry"],"id":76119,"author_id":"Adeline+Yen+Mah"},{"text":"Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.","author":"Adeline Yen Mah","tags":["revenge"],"id":163218,"author_id":"Adeline+Yen+Mah"},{"text":"To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to 'serve him'. Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to 'give' him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a 'one-woman man'.","author":"Adeline Yen Mah","tags":["adultery","affairs","family","father","honesty","husband","inspiration","love","loyalty","manliness","manly","marriage","men","mistress","morals","prostitution","true-love","wife","wife-and-husband","women"],"id":287278,"author_id":"Adeline+Yen+Mah"},{"text":"That’s exactly what I’ll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I’m going to ask BigBrother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there’sobviously nobody looking out for me. I’ll just have to find my own way.","author":"Adeline Yen Mah","tags":["aloneness","courage","strength"],"id":308413,"author_id":"Adeline+Yen+Mah"},{"text":"Mother Teresa once said, 'Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty.' To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.","author":"Adeline Yen Mah","tags":["inspirational","positivity"],"id":420835,"author_id":"Adeline+Yen+Mah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}