Pearl S. Buck quotes

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. (Pearl S. Buck)
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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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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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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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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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.
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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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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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One faces the future with one's past. (Pearl S. Buck)
Love dies only when growth stops.
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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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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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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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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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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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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. (Pearl S. Buck)
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.
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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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.
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