Pearl S. Buck Quotes

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• The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspiring, Civilization, Society

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Two, People, Sorrow

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.30, Open Road Media

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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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, Emotions Feelings, Anxiety

  "To My Daughters, With Love (My Neighbor's Son)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Joy, Contentment

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• When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Peace, Struggle

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• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Monday, Work

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• Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Safety, Peaceful, Unity

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Single, Spring, Women

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• Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Heaven

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters”, p.368, Open Road Media

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  Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  "Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them". Book by John Mason, August 1999.

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• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Teaching, Artist, Brave

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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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Blow, Creative, Joy

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Happiness, Beautiful, Heart

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• 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

  Courage, Integrity, Adversity

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• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Science, Technology, Yesterday

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• None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Adventure, Bored

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• destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Destructiveness

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• If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Kindness, Grateful, Long

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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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Learning, Joy, Healthy

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Real, United States

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• A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Foreigners

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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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Civilization, Two, Savages

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