| A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl Buck Remarks |
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| Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Pearl Buck Remarks |
| Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. Pearl Buck |
| If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. Pearl Buck Adages |
| In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. Pearl Buck |
| Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. Pearl Buck |
| Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. Pearl Buck Quotes |
| Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being. Pearl Buck Sayings |
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| Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. Pearl Buck |
| 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. Pearl Buck Quotations |
| Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. Pearl Buck Adages |
| Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. Pearl Buck |
| 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 Buck Sayings |
| The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl Buck Sayings |
| 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. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. Pearl Buck |
| There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. Pearl Buck |
| We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. Pearl Buck Remarks |
| You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. Pearl Buck Adages |
