To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
