Prairie Lotus Quotes

Finish,” Mama had said. “Good work is no good if you don’t finish.

Sometimes beautiful things aren’t for buying. They’re for dreaming.

To save time, take time.

For the person who is sour, do something sweet.

It still is Indian land. Stolen by white people. You steal something, that doesn’t make it yours.

I always cared about the unfairness. But I used to think only of how white people treated Chinese people. Now I know it’s about how white people treat anybody who isn’t white. She couldn’t bring herself to say that to Papa.

Clean and neat. You don’t have to be fancy. But clean and neat shows respect to other people. And respect to yourself.

You stop thinking about yourself. That’s where the sadness is, inside you. You look outside instead. At other people. You do things for other people, it fills you with good feelings, less room for the bad ones.