Joy Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

9 Joy quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Buck’s narratives bridge cultures and compassion. These nine snippets capture her belief that joy thrives in empathy and shared humanity.

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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…

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

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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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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and…

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“Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it…

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring…

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

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endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be…

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For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put…

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover…

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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

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No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the…

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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I…

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“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,…

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

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“Mind and body were well or ill together.”

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“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu”

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“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people…

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

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“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people,…

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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to…

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