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Pearl S. Buck
American
Novelist
About the author
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Heart
#Blame
#Praise
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,
American
Novelist
#Work
#Word
#Excellence
#Joy
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,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Heart
#Being
#Mind
#Succeed
#Thoughts
#Inspiration
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Wife
#Power
#Fool
#Heaven
#Bravery
#HusbStrength
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#People
#Men
#Women
#Discovery
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Kiss
#Mothers
#Kissing
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Truth
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Evil
#Race
#Shadow
#Prejudice
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Truth
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Right
#People
#Fear
#Old
#Society
#Civilization
#Deserted
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Beauty
#Order
One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Past
#Future
#Faces
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Self
#Communication
#Fulfillment
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Hope
#Death
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Heart
#Mind
#Joy
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Country
#Missionaries
#Heaven
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#World
#May
#Old
#Age
#Grave
#Meditation
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Neglect
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#People
#Country
#Evil
#Men
#Struggle
#Vigilance
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Old
#Men
#Gods
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Idea
#Age
#Pain
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,
American
Novelist
#Right
#Feelings
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Nothing
#Man
#Woman
#Marriage
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Work
#Youth
#Joy
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Want
#Today
#Yesterday
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#God
#Truth
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Growth
#Change
#Marriage
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Work
#Man
#Woman
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Now
#May
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Words
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Mistake
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Growth
#Happiness
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Man
#Hunger
I am mentally bifocal.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Work
#Nothing
#Moods
#Mind
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Life
#American
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,
American
Novelist
#Hope
#Work
#Faith
#Writer
#Pen
#Lies
#Waiting
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,
American
Novelist
#World
#Home
#Man
#Needs
#Woman
#Education
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,
American
Novelist
#Strength
#May
#Religion
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#People
#Nothing
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Hope
#Death
#Idealism
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Wonder
#Earth
#Old
#Heaven
#Angels
Love alone could waken love.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Love
Love dies only when growth stops.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Growth
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#World
#Men
#Women
#Possession
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Men
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,
American
Novelist
#Hope
#Freedom
#Power
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.
Pearl S. Buck,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Wonder
#Earth
#Faith
#Kindness
#Heaven
#Angels