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

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  People, Joy, Contentment

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Monday, Work

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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.

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  Teaching, Artist, Brave

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Science, Technology, Yesterday

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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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• What the common man cannot understand he hates.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hate, Men, Common

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Love, Friendship, Broken Heart

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Patriot: A Novel”, p.92, 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Adventure, Bored

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• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Change, Pain, Fear

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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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  Family, Mother, Children

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• 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.

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  Life, Beautiful, Work

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Foreigners

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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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  Motivational, Education, Time

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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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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