Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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.
Now, five years is nothing in a man’s life except when he is very young and very old…- Wang Lung
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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 mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.
To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!” (Buck, 57)
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.
Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.
All things are possible until they are proven impossible.
Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.
There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison
The narrator refers to a character as “an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
Wandering is never waste, dear boy,’ he said. ‘While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.
Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.
Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.
Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.
When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Once the “what” is decided the “how” always follows. We must not make the “how” an excuse for not facing and accepting the “what.”
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
It is better not to say “lend.” There is only giving.
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
I am comforted by life’s stability by earth’s unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.
When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
If you start to revise before you’ve reached the end, you’re likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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.
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.
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.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.