Pearl S. Buck Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”
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“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”
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“All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”
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“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
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“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”
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“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”
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“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
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“We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.”
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“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
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“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.”
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“Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.”
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“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
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“A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.”
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“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place”
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“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
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“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.”
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“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”
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“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”
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“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292”
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“French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.”
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“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”
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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.”
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“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.”
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“Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?”
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“A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.”
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“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”
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