Pearl S Buck quotes

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

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 mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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 woman.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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 woman.

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 a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

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 a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

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

One faces the future with one's past.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

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

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

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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 earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Love alone could waken love.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

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

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

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

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Love alone could waken love.