Pearl S. Buck Quotes

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• None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of…
• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
• Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
• I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His…
• Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs…
• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
• Love dies only when growth stops.
• Hunger makes a thief of any man.
• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
• Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
• Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
• Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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