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#1

“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”
― Pearl Buck

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#2

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

tags: happiness, joy, purpose-of-life, social-justice

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#3

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. ”
― Pearl S. Buck

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#4

“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

tags: angel, being, earth, faith, heaven, hope, human, kindness, later, life, now

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#5

“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

tags: writing

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#6

“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”
― Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds

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#7

“All things are possible until they are proven impossible.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: imagination, possibility

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#8

“The rich are always afraid.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

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#9

“One faces the future with one's past.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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#10

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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#11

“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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#12

“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”
― Pearl S Buck

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#13

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
― Pearl Buck

tags: history-politics-historyofpower

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#14

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

tags: impossible, possible

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#15

“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

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#16

“I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

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#17

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

tags: inspirational

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#18

“I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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#19

“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 cell."

(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: abilites, double-standards, empowerment, inequality, prison, women, women-s-liberation, women-s-rights

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#20

“there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Peony

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#21

“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women

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#22

“You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad”
― Pearl S. Buck, Peony

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