Heart Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

11 Heart quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck’s voice often turned ordinary moments into quiet wisdom. Here, a modest set of eleven passages gathers her thoughts on the heart’s quiet strength, offering a gentle place to pause and feel the pulse of her insights.

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the heart never grows old.

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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

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A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

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you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into…

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A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh,…

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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

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“However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.”

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“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it…

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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood…

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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…

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

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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