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Life Quotes by Pearl S. Buck
- 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.
- 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.
- Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
- Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
- I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of…
- One faces the future with one's past.
- My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I…
- None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
- Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
- No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real…
- It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is…
- From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a…
- Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times?…
- Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is…
- If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.
- there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.
- Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
- Life is stronger than death.
- You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the…
- The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
- Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven…
- I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle