Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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.

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  Learning, Joy, Healthy

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

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• People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

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  Country, Simple, People

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• men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

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  Men, Forbidden, Nations

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

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  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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• In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

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  Lines, Infinity, Possibility

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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  Hope, Peace, Freedom

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.4.

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• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Cheer

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

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  Nature, Nature And Environment, Knows

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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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• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

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  Love, Change, Anniversary

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• The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

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  Creative, Mind, Fields

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

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  People, Destructiveness

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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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• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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  Children, Failure, Teaching

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• 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.

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  Home, Men, Needs

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

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  Heart, Capacity To Love, Important

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• A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

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  Men, Food Banks, Poverty

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• I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

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  Children, Believe, Adults

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• No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

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  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

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  Music, Beautiful, Technique

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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.

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  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

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

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• doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

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  Together, Want, Able

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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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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• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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  Work, Teaching, Learning

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

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