Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth,… — 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… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
