Pearl S. Buck Quotes

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

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

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  People, Joy, Contentment

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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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  Peace, Emotions Feelings, Anxiety

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

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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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  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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Truth

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

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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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  Single, Spring, Women

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

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  Safety, Peaceful, Unity

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

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

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  Inspirational, Monday, Work

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

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  Happiness, Beautiful, Heart

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

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  Country, Peace, Struggle

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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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.'

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  Courage, Integrity, Adversity

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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.

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  Teaching, Artist, Brave

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

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  Science, Technology, Yesterday

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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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  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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• Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

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  Wonder, Life Is

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Eternal Wonder: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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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.

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  Life, Adventure, Bored

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• There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

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  Happiness, Hope, Joy

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

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  Children, Neglect, Born

  "Children for Adoption". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 3, 1964.

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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.

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  Country, Real, United States

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• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

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  Sweet, Time, Grandma

  "China: Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1972.

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• We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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  Country, Diversity, Heaven

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• Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

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  Failure, Success And Failure, Success Failure

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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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  Mistake, Failure, Positive Thinking

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.10.

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