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Life Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

37 Life quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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Music is described as the meaning of life itself, both sorrowful and beautiful. The quotes stress that truth excites, that kindness of people can be a guiding faith, and that having enough for this one life can feel complete. They also wonder how life would feel if we knew it ahead of time.

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Life is stronger than death.

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Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

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“If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?”

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If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

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

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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

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

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“Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.”

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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

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destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

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“This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.”

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in…

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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that…

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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize…

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“There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half…

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It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life,…

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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind…

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If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies…

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Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be…

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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that…

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I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their…

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“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent…

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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,…

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No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly…

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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I…

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Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that…

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You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could…

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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,…

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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…

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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

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“Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he…

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“I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth…

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music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of…

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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot…

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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

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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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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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

“Mind and body were well or ill together.”

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

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

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

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

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