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Pearl S. Buck - From the Aging category:
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Choices category:
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.' (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Consideration category:
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Creativity category:
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To them... 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. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Creativity category:
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Discovery category:
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Dreams category:
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Emotion category:
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Expression category:
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Failure category:
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Faith category:
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Freedom category:
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Future category:
One faces the future with one's past. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Gender category:
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Generosity category:
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Growth category:
Growth itself has the germ of happiness. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Growth category:
Love dies only when growth stops. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Hope category:
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Idealism category:
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Ideas category:
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Impossibilities category:
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Joy category:
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Knowledge category:
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Love category:
Love alone could waken love. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Mistakes category:
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Money category:
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Order category:
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Possibilities category:
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Procrastination category:
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Religion category:
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Renewal category:
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Research category:
When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Responsibility category:
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Sadness category:
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Solitude category:
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. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Thinking category:
I am mentally bifocal. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Truth category:
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Understanding category:
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Universe category:
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Work category:
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. (Pearl S. Buck)
Pearl S. Buck - From the Writing category:
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. (Pearl S. Buck)
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