There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who… — 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
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and… — 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
