Pearl S. Buck Quotes

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

Freedom, Power, Hope

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.
Pearl S. Buck

Fear, Society, Young

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Pearl S. Buck

Yourself, Feelings, Cannot

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.
Pearl S. Buck

Alone, Live, Mind

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.
Pearl S. Buck

Work, Mind, Nothing

Love dies only when growth stops.
Pearl S. Buck

Love, Growth, Dies

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck

Today, Understand, Yesterday

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

Work, Find, Joy

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.
Pearl S. Buck

Education, Home, Woman

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

Alone, Live, Place

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

Love, Change, Marriage

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Pearl S. Buck

God, Truth, Coward

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck

May, Impossible, Until

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck

Life, American, Child

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

Life, Hope, Death

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck

Beautiful, Mind, Heart

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck

Great, Moment, Second

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck

Makes, Thief, Hunger

Love alone could waken love.
Pearl S. Buck

Love, Alone, Waken

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Pearl S. Buck

Work, Woman, Educated

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

Age, Pain, Judge

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Pearl S. Buck

Communication, Pass

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

Life, Truth, Speak

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.
Pearl S. Buck

Life, Faith, Kindness

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

Work, Enjoy, Joy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 6, 1892

Died: March 6, 1973

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